imagination as a noun: 1 2 3
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imagination noun
1 imagination The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses:— Popular imagination created a world of demons.
synonyms: imaginativeness , vision .
Roget 515 :imagination ;
originality ;
invention ;
fancy ;
inspiration ;
verve .
warm imagination ,
heated imagination ,
excited imagination ,
sanguine imagination ,
ardent imagination ,
fiery imagination ,
boiling imagination ,
wild imagination ,
bold imagination ,
daring imagination ,
playful imagination ,
lively imagination ,
fertile imagination ,
fancy .
mind's eye ;"
such stuff as dreams are made of "
[Tempest].
ideality ,
idealism ;
romanticism ,
utopianism ,
castle-building .
dreaming ;
phrensy † ,
frenzy ;
ecstasy ,
extasy † ;
calenture
etc.
(delirium)
503 † ;
reverie ,
trance ;
day dream ,
golden dream ;
somnambulism .
conception ,
Vorstellung [G.] ,
excogitation † ,
a fine frenzy ;"
cloudland † ,
dreamland ;
flight of fancy ,
fumes of fancy ;
thick coming fancies "
[Macbeth];
creation of the brain ,
coinage of the brain ;
imagery .
conceit ,
maggot ,
figment ,
myth ,
dream ,
vision ,
shadow ,
chimera ;
phantasm ,
phantasy ;
fantasy ,
fancy ;
whim ,
whimsey † ,
whimsy ;
vagary ,
rhapsody ,
romance ,
gest † ,
geste † ,
extravaganza ;
air drawn dagger ,
bugbear ,
nightmare .
flying Dutchman ,
great sea serpent ,
man in the moon ,
castle in the air ,
pipe dream ,
pie-in-the-sky ,
chateau en Espagne [Fr.] ;
Utopia ,
Atlantis † ,
happy valley ,
millennium ,
fairyland ;
land of Prester John ,
kindgom of Micomicon ;
work of fiction
etc.
(novel)
594 Arabian nights † ;
le pot au lait [Fr.] ;
dream of Alnashar
etc.
(hope)
858 † .
illusion
etc.
(error)
495 phantom
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443 Fata Morgana
etc.
(ignis fatuus) [Lat.]
423 vapor
etc.
(cloud)
353 stretch of the imagination
etc.
(exaggeration)
549 mythogenesis † .
idealist ,
romanticist ,
visionary ;
mopus † ;
romancer ,
dreamer ;
somnambulist ;
rhapsodist
etc.
(fanatic)
504 castle-buildier ,
fanciful projector .
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Dutch: verbeelding Polish: wizja, wyobrażenie
2 imagination The ability to form mental images of things or events:— He could still hear her in his imagination.
synonyms: imagery , imaging , mental imagery .
Dutch: beeldspraak
3 imagination The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems.
synonyms: resource , resourcefulness .
Dutch: hulpbron Polish: przedsiębiorczość, zaradność, operatywność, inicjatywa, obrotność, rzutkość
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