imaginary being

Noun
  1. A creature of the imagination;
    A person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction (synset 109506868)
    is a type of: imagination, imaginativeness, vision - the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
    subtypes:
    • hypothetical creature - a creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist
    • mythical being - an imaginary being of myth or fable
    • giant - an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
    • hobbit - an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien
    • mermaid - half woman and half fish; lives in the sea
    • merman - half man and half fish; lives in the sea
    • cadmus - (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia
    • monster - an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
    • witch - a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
    • character, fictional character, fictitious character - an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
    • psychopomp - a conductor of souls to the afterworld
    • sylph - an elemental being believed to inhabit the air
    • unicorn - an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead
    specific instances:
    • death - the personification of death
    • gargantua - a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name
    • maxwell's demon - an imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics
    • martian - imaginary people who live on the planet Mars
    • humpty dumpty - an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)
    • jack frost - a personification of frost or winter weather
    • mammon - (New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit
    • father christmas, kriss kringle, saint nicholas, saint nick, santa, santa claus, st. nick - the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas
    • tom thumb - an imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb
    same as: imaginary creature

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