Princeton's WordNet

1. imagination, imaginativeness, vision(noun)

   the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

   "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"

2. imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery(noun)

   the ability to form mental images of things or events

   "he could still hear her in his imagination"

3. resource, resourcefulness, imagination(noun)

   the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

   "a man of resource"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. imagination(noun)ɪˌmædʒ əˈneɪ ʃən

   the ability to think of ideas and be creative in your thoughts

   Don't copy other people - use your imagination.

2. imaginationɪˌmædʒ əˈneɪ ʃən

   a strong ability to imagine

Wiktionary

1. imagination(Noun)

   The image-making power of the mind; the act of creating or reproducing ideally an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.

   Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.

2. imagination(Noun)

   Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.

   You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination.

3. imagination(Noun)

   Creativity; resourcefulness.

   His imagination makes him a valuable team member.

4. imagination(Noun)

   A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion; an imagining; something imagined.

Webster Dictionary

1. Imagination(noun)

   the imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines

2. Imagination(noun)

   the representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy

3. Imagination(noun)

   the power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal

4. Imagination(noun)

   a mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. Imagination

   the name appropriate to the highest faculty of man, and defined by Ruskin as "mental creation," in the exercise of which the human being discharges his highest function as a responsible being, "the defect of which on common minds it is the main use," says Ruskin, "of works of fiction, and of the drama, as far as possible, to supply."

The Roycroft Dictionary

1. imagination

   1. A marvelous little multicolored drugget that covers the rough and splintered floor of reality. 2. A haunted chateau. 3. A vestibule between Time and Eternity. 4. The giant enemy of reality. 5. The red Pantheon of Lucifer. 6. The candle-gleam of science; the flambeau of the lover; the constellated nebulæ of the poet. 7. The glittering west-dust of a hidden innominate sun. 8. The seigniory of untrammeled instincts; the fief of unsanctified dreams; the palfrey that carries us toward nebulous spiritual hills. 9. The plasma of gods. 10. Puck strapped to the back of Balaam's ass. 11. The Shakespeare of mental faculties. 12. The avatar of the emotions. 13. A golden key that unlocks the bastile of logic. 14. A ladder to the fourth dimension. 15. A sublime liar. 16. Taking the halter off your thoughts and giving them a good kick behind. 17. Sympathy illumined by brains.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. Imagination

   A new pattern of perceptual or ideational material derived from past experience.

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