imagination
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imagination (plural imaginations)
- The image-making power of the mind; the act of creating or reproducing ideally an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
- Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
- Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
- You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination.
- Creativity; resourcefulness.
- His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
- A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion; an imagining; something imagined.
- 1597, Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", Essays:
- And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
- 1597, Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", Essays:
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- (the representative power): creativity, fancy, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness
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image-making power of the mind
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construction of false images
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a mental image
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[edit] External links
Imagination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[edit] French
[edit] Noun
imagination f. (plural imaginations)