fantasticize vs fantasy

fantasticize

verb
  • Synonym of fantasize 

  • To make fantastic; to use the imagination to embellish. 

fantasy

verb
  • To fantasize (about). 

  • To imagine; to conceive mentally. 

noun
  • That which comes from one's imagination. 

  • A fantastical design. 

  • The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid. 

  • The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc. 

How often have the words fantasticize and fantasy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )