noun
- Music.
- a composition in fanciful or irregular form or style.
- a potpourri of well-known airs arranged with interludes and florid embellishments.
- fantasy(def 9).
- something considered to be unreal, weird, exotic, or grotesque.
noun
- any musical composition of a free or improvisatory nature
- a potpourri of popular tunes woven freely into a loosely bound composition
- another word for fancy (def. 13)
“musical composition that sounds extemporaneous,” 1724, from Italian fantasia, from Latin phantasia (see fantasy).