fantastique
adjEtymology Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.
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Belonging or relating to this genre.
fantastique
noun/fæntæsˈtɪk/
Etymology Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.
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Broadcasting, Film, Literature, Media, Publishing, Television A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
- And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.1988 January 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Invitation to the Trance”, in Chicago Reader: