ALL meanings of imagination
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I i - noun imagination mental faculty 1
- noun imagination insight, ingenuity 1
- noun imagination the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses. 1
- noun imagination the action or process of forming such images or concepts. 1
- noun imagination the faculty of producing ideal creations consistent with reality, as in literature, as distinct from the power of creating illustrative or decorative imagery. Compare fancy (def 2). 1
- noun imagination the product of imagining; a conception or mental creation, often a baseless or fanciful one. 1
- noun imagination ability to face and resolve difficulties; resourcefulness: a job that requires imagination. 1
- noun imagination Psychology. the power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images (reproductive imagination) or of recombining former experiences in the creation of new images directed at a specific goal or aiding in the solution of problems (creative imagination) 1
- noun imagination (in Kantian epistemology) synthesis of data from the sensory manifold into objects by means of the categories. 1
- noun imagination Archaic. a plan, scheme, or plot. 1
- variable noun imagination Your imagination is the ability that you have to form pictures or ideas in your mind of things that are new and exciting, or things that you have not experienced. 0
- countable noun imagination Your imagination is the part of your mind which allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life. 0
- noun imagination the faculty or action of producing ideas, esp mental images of what is not present or has not been experienced 0
- noun imagination mental creative ability 0
- noun imagination the ability to deal resourcefully with unexpected or unusual problems, circumstances, etc 0
- noun imagination (in romantic literary criticism, esp that of S. T. Coleridge) a creative act of perception that joins passive and active elements in thinking and imposes unity on the poetic material 0
- noun imagination the act or power of forming mental images of what is not actually present 0
- noun imagination the act or power of creating mental images of what has never been actually experienced, or of creating new images or ideas by combining previous experiences; creative power 0
- noun imagination anything imagined; mental image; creation of the mind; fancy 0
- noun imagination a foolish notion; empty fancy 0
- noun imagination the ability to understand and appreciate imaginative creations of others, esp. works of art and literature 0
- noun imagination resourcefulness in dealing with new or unusual experiences 0
- noun imagination an evil plan or scheme 0