| imagination | | |
| n. (cognition) | 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.; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" |
| ~ creative thinking, creativeness, creativity | the ability to create. |
| ~ fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place | a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings. |
| ~ 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.; "a schoolgirl fantasy" |
| ~ dreaming, dream | imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake.; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" |
| ~ imaginary being, imaginary creature | a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events.; "he could still hear her in his imagination" |
| ~ representational process | any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else. |
| ~ mind's eye | the imaging of remembered or invented scenes.; "I could see her clearly in my mind's eye" |
| ~ vision | a vivid mental image.; "he had a vision of his own death" |
| ~ envisioning, picturing | visual imagery. |
| ~ dream, dreaming | a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep.; "I had a dream about you last night" |
| ~ chimaera, chimera | a grotesque product of the imagination. |
| ~ evocation | imaginative re-creation. |
| ~ make-believe, pretense, pretence | imaginative intellectual play. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. imagination, resource, resourcefulness | the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems.; "a man of resource" |
| ~ cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness | the power of creative imagination. |
| ~ armory, armoury, inventory | a collection of resources.; "he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer" |
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