imaginify

English

Etymology

imagine +‎ -ify

Verb

imaginify (third-person singular simple present imaginifies, present participle imaginifying, simple past and past participle imaginified)

1. To convert into an object of the imagination; to fantasize about.
   • 1912, John E. MacGowan, The Tradesman - Volume 67, page 24:

     In both instances, the process of distorting and imaginifying has been helped on by […]

   • 1981, Paul Arthur Schilpp, Jean-Paul Sartre, The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, page 139:

     Film and fiction both exemplify a transcendence of perceptual and social givens and a movement toward the imaginary ; each involves a conjoint action of “ derealizing " ( irréalisation ) and “ imaginifying ” ( imaginarisation ) .

   • 2000, Edward S. Casey, Imagining: A Phenomenological Study, page 74:

     For I am free to disregard the original experience in its perceptual or mnemic reality, that is, as an actual event which is to be imitated or varied in imagination. Once the content of the initial experience has been "imaginified," I am at liberty to control its future course in any way I choose, including even the possibility of allowing the imaginative experience to become once again a perceptual experience.