絵空事|えそらごとesoragoto[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounfabrication; pipe dream

• Synonym夢物語ゆめものがたりNeutralDreamlike, unrealistic talk, often a wish unlikely to come true; 「絵空事」 instead stresses made-up content divorced from reality.
• Related夢語りゆめがたりWrittenSame meaning as 「夢物語」; also used for the telling of dreams. A written/formal word, used less often.
• Antonym現実げんじつNeutralRefers to the state of affairs actually before your eyes; set against fiction and fantasy such as 「絵空事」.
• Antonym事実じじつNeutralWhat has actually happened; the opposite of something made up. Also works as an adverb meaning 'in fact, actually'.

To call a plan unrealistic, 「夢物語」 is the usual word; use 「絵空事」 when content is made up and detached from reality. 「夢語り」 is a rarer written variant. As antonyms, 「現実」 is the state of things as they are, 「事実」 what actually happened.

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1. 絵画かいがで、実際じっさいにないようなものを描えがいたり、誇張こちょうして描えがいたりすること。
2. 現実げんじつにないこと。でたらめ。空理空論くうりくうろん。画餅がべい。