[feɪ], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- giving an impression of sensitivity and vague unworldliness, sometimes in an affected or whimsical way
(e.g: a rather fey romantic novelist)

- having magical or supernatural powers or knowledge
(e.g: the painting depicts a variety of fey creatures such as elves, dwarves, gnomes, and pixies)

- fated to die or at the point of death


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Origin:
Old English fǣge (in the sense ‘fated to die soon’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veeg and to German feige ‘cowardly’