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- i|mag|i|na|tion «ih MAJ uh NAY shuhn», noun.1. the action of imagining; power of forming pictures in the mind of things not present to the senses. Imagination leads people to think they see, hear, or feel things that are not there. »
The child's imagination filled the woods with strange animals and fairies.
2. the ability to create new things or ideas or to combine old ones in new forms: »Poets, artists, and inventors need imagination.
4. Obsolete. a scheming or planning; plot: »Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me (Lamentations 3:60)
╂[< Old French imagination, learned borrowing from Latin imāginātiō, -ōnis < imāginārī imagine]Synonym Study 1, 2 Imagination, fancy mean the power of forming pictures of things in the mind. Imagination applies to the ability to create believable or realistic pictures of things that never existed or happened: »His fascinating characters are the products of a fertile imagination.
Fancy applies to ability to make unbelievable or fantastic pictures, by inventing them or by putting together in unrealistic ways things from reality: »Many comic strips are products of fancy.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.