or FANCY, the Imagination; one of the powers of the mind, 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. Or it is that internal sense 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 fenation: whence the visions and deceptions those persons are liable to.