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fantastique

/fɑ̃.tas.tik/

adjective/fɑ̃.tas.tik/

fantastic (related to fantasy or fantasies); related to the fantastique genre.

Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phăntăstĭkós).

noun, masculine/fɑ̃.tas.tik/plural: fantastiques

A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.

Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phăntăstĭkós).