- Derived from the blending of fantastic and fantasize. The blend may have been created as a way to more strongly suggest an exaggeration in a more scathing way.
fantasticize
verb; blending
to exaggerate; to stretch the truth out of proportion.
Etymology : fantastic 'existing only in imagination', from O.Fr. fantastique + fantasy 'illusory appearance', from O.Fr. fantasie
Source : "...is it wise to accept a documentary as an objective representation of reality given the medium's capacity to distort and to fantasticize actual events...?" http://www.oakstreetfilms.com/20…e-dun-ete-1961/
Last modified: 3 December 2008