or FANCY, the Imagination; the second of the powers or faculties of soul, by which the species of objects received by the external organs of sense are retained, recalled, further examined, and either compounded or divided. See IMAGINATION; and METAPHYSICS, Part I. Chap. ii.

Others define the phantasy to be that internal sense or power, whereby the ideas of absent things are formed, and represented to the mind as if they were present. In melancholics and madmen this faculty is very strong, representing many extravagant and monstrous things, and framing its images as lively as those of sensation; whence the visions and deceptions those persons are liable to.