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fancying

  1. present participle and gerund of fancy

fancying (plural fancyings)

  1. Something fancied or imagined.

    • 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener:

      These sad fancyings – chimeras, doubtless, of a sick and silly brain – led on the other and more special thoughts, concerning the eccentricities of Bartleby.