Word Finder - imagination

definition

The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.

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Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.

definition

Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.

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You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination.

definition

Creativity; resourcefulness.

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His imagination makes him a valuable team member.

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A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.

synonyms

• conception
• imagining
• notion

She was letting her imagination run wild again.

She was letting her imagination run wild.

She now tells stories in which the imagination plays an important part.

It was beyond his imagination that she would grant him that which he wanted!

My imagination got the better of me and I took it out on you.

Kids have a strong imagination.

Imagination could only go so far, though, and she ended up crying herself to sleep.

She was letting her imagination work overtime again.

Was it her imagination, or was it the man who drove the black car?

We were cowboy and Indian kids, living in an imagination paradise of rocks and trees and dirt, with her leading the way.

His imagination would be worse than what Rob actually said.

Fueled by her own imagination, she took a swing at him with the broom.

It was probably her overactive imagination again.

All that we do know certainly is that she has a good memory and imagination and the faculty of association.

The judo pants rode low enough on his hips to tease her imagination of what lay just a couple inches below the seam.

This work struck de Lesseps's imagination, and gave him the idea of piercing the African isthmus.

What she drew from the guitar would have had no meaning for other listeners, but in her imagination a whole series of reminiscences arose from those sounds.

Now that was a good example of her imagination working over time.

For a moment she let her imagination dwell on the feel of that lean body against hers.

I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity.

Maybe it was the near-inaudible buzz or the rain on the roof, or my imagination, by I actually napped, for about twenty minutes.

And because some little snot-nose has a vivid imagination, or thinks it's fun to tell whoppers, I'm supposed to go traipsing off in some god-forsaken mine on the taxpayer's expense on a treasure hunt?

The figure of Alexander naturally impressed itself upon the imagination of the world which his career had shaken.

The recital of their travels fired the youthful imagination of young Marco Polo, son of Nicolo, and he set out for the court of Kublai Khan, with his father and uncle, in 1265.

The black lady's tone left no imagination to what she thought of the latest deadbeat mom in her office.

Heat flared within her body, and her imagination painted an image of the warrior before her without the clothing.

In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought, and I knew their price.

With mournful pleasure she now lingered over these images, repelling with horror only the last one, the picture of his death, which she felt she could not contemplate even in imagination at this still and mystic hour of night.

As, however, these machines impressed the popular imagination, they naturally figure largely in the traditions about him.

For power and range of imagination, for freshness and vividness of conception, for truth and originality of presentation, few Roman poets can compare with him when he is at his best.

But no power of imagination can conceive an acknowledged right of private war in Rome, Venice or Bern.

Using your imagination and creativity is the best way to get started.

She read widely though unsystematically, studying philosophy in Aristotle, Leibnitz, Locke and Condillac, and feeding her imagination with Rene and Childe Harold.

She vividly pictured herself as Prince Andrew's wife, and the scenes of happiness with him she had so often repeated in her imagination, and at the same time, aglow with excitement, recalled every detail of yesterday's interview with Anatole.

As in children, imagination and the senses prevailed in those men of the past.

Napoleon rode on, dreaming of the Moscow that so appealed to his imagination, and "the bird restored to its native fields" galloped to our outposts, inventing on the way all that had not taken place but that he meant to relate to his comrades.

Did you read this somewhere or do you just have a vivid imagination?

Valentine, which was published in the same year, indicated that it was but the first chapter in a life of endless adventures, and that the imagination which turned the crude facts into poetry, and the fancy which played about them like a rainbow, were inexhaustible.

The very fine torso of Athena in the Ecole des Beaux Arts at Paris, which has unfortunately lost its head, may perhaps best serve to help our imagination in reconstructing a Pheidian original.

Thus passed several years; he was still young, but his new mode of life produced its effects on a man of his imagination and saintly piety.

The reiterated reports of the actual existence of a wandering being, who retained in his memory the details of the crucifixion, show how the idea had fixed itself in popular imagination and found its way into the 19th-century collections of German legends.

How my childish imagination glowed with the splendour of their enterprise!

Thoughts that had not entered her mind for years--thoughts of a life free from the fear of her father, and even the possibility of love and of family happiness--floated continually in her imagination like temptations of the devil.

Alex always said she had a good imagination.

Her own words bounced off the wall and came back as a flash of memory and imagination.

It was, they said, "a devout imagination."

Angelo, Tyran de Padoue (1835), the last of the tragic triad to which their creator denied the transfiguration of tragic verse, is inferior to neither in power of imagination and of style, in skill of invention and construction, and in mastery over all natural and noble sources of pity and of terror.

Hence, whatever is true of space and time regarded by imagination as objects, i.e.

The specific forms of productive imagination are called schemata, and upon the nature of the schema Kant gives much that has proved of extreme value for subsequent thought.

I'm not saying exposure to a unique power load might not somehow intensify his imagination and perhaps cause heightened awareness; I'm simply stating there isn't some time machine or magical forest upstairs.