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NOUN | 1 | 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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2 | imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery | The ability to form mental images of things or events | |
3 | imagination, resource, resourcefulness | The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems |
Sounds | ihmae.jhahney'shahn |
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Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
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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Examples | "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" |
Synonyms | imaginativeness, vision |
Narrower | imaginary place, mythical place; fancy; fantasy, phantasy; dream, dreaming; imaginary being, imaginary creature |
Broader | creativity, creativeness, creative thinking |
Verbs | imagine |
Meaning | The ability to form mental images of things or events. |
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Examples | "he could still hear her in his imagination" |
Synonyms | imaging, imagery, mental imagery |
Narrower | mind's eye; vision; picturing, envisioning; dream, dreaming; chimera, chimaera; evocation; pretense, pretence, make-believe |
Broader | representational process |
Verbs | imagine |
Meaning | The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems. |
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Synonyms | resource, resourcefulness |
Narrower | armory, armoury, inventory |
Broader | inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness |