NOUN | cognition | imagination, imaginativeness, vision | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses |
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cognition | imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events | |
cognition | imagination, resource, resourcefulness | the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems |
Sounds | ihmae.jhahney'shahn | |
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Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... |
Meaning | The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses. | |
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Synonyms | imaginativeness, vision | |
Narrower | dream, dreaming | imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake |
fancy | A kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination | |
fantasy, phantasy | imagination unrestricted by reality | |
imaginary being, imaginary creature | A creature / creature of the imagination | |
imaginary place, mythical place, fictitious place | A place that exists only in imagination | |
Broader | creativity, creativeness, creative thinking | The ability to create |
Spanish | imaginación | |
Catalan | imaginació | |
Verbs | imagine | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case |
Meaning | The ability to form mental images of things or events. | |
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Example | "he could still hear her in his imagination" | |
Synonyms | imaging, imagery, mental imagery | |
Narrower | chimera, chimaera | A grotesque product of the imagination |
dream, dreaming | A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep / sleep | |
evocation | imaginative re-creation | |
mind's eye | The imaging of remembered or invented scenes | |
picturing, envisioning | visual imagery | |
pretense, pretence, make-believe | imaginative intellectual play | |
vision | A vivid mental image | |
Broader | representational process | Any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else |
Spanish | imagen mental, imagen, representación mental, representación | |
Catalan | imatge mental, imatge, imatgeria, representació mental, representació | |
Verbs | imagine | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case |
Meaning | The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems. | |
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Synonyms | resource, resourcefulness | |
Narrower | armory, armoury, inventory | A collection of resources |
Broader | inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness | The power of creative imagination / imagination |
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