Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/
imagination
- The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
- Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
- Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
- You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination.
- Creativity; resourcefulness.
- His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
- A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.
- Synonyms: conception, notion, imagining
- 1597, Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", Essays:
- And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
- (the representative power) creativity, fancy, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness
- French: imagination
- German: Vorstellungskraft, Imagination, Einbildungskraft, Fantasie
- Portuguese: imaginação
- Russian: воображе́ние
- Spanish: imaginación, magín
- Portuguese: imaginação
- Russian: воображе́ние
- German: Vorstellung, Einbildung
- Portuguese: imaginação
- Russian: воображе́ние
- Spanish: imaginación
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