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 | imagination, vision |
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Narrower | dream, dreaming | imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake |
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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 |
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Spanish | imaginación |
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Catalan | imaginació |
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Adjectives | imaginative | (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
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