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i|mag|i|na|tion
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.

3. a creation of the mind; mental image; fancy.
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.


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