imagination
Noun
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The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses (synset 105633248)
"popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"subtypes:
- fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
- fancy - imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
- fantasy, phantasy - imagination unrestricted by reality
- dream, dreaming - imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
- imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction
same as: imaginativeness, vision -
The ability to form mental images of things or events (synset 105775730)
"he could still hear her in his imagination"is a type of: representational process - any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something elsesubtypes:
- mind's eye - the imaging of remembered or invented scenes
- vision - a vivid mental image
- envisioning, picturing - visual imagery
- dream, dreaming - a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
- chimaera, chimera - a grotesque product of the imagination
- evocation - imaginative re-creation
- make-believe, pretence, pretense - imaginative intellectual play
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The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems (synset 105641705)
"a man of resource"is a type of: cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness - the power of creative imaginationsame as: resource, resourcefulness
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