Definition of imagination

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Imagination (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.

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Compass :: Compass (n.) Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination..
Reproduce :: Reproduce (v. t.) To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design..
Exert :: Exert (v. t.) To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice..
Pictorial :: Pictorial (a.) Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination..
Realistic :: Realistic (a.) Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.
Fertility :: Fertility (n.) The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination..
Humor :: Humor (n.) That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness..
Conceited :: Conceited (a.) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
Occur :: Occur (v. i.) To meet or come to the mind; to suggest itself; to be presented to the imagination or memory.
Pamper :: Pamper (v. t.) To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination..
Fiction :: Fiction (n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances..
Fancy :: Fancy (n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination..
Idea :: Idea (n.) A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity..
Woolgathering :: Woolgathering (a.) Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
Imaginability :: Imaginability (n.) Capacity for imagination.
Invent :: Invent (v. t.) To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood..
Invention :: Invention (n.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts..
Imaginary :: Imaginary (a.) Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.
Fantastic :: Fantastic (a.) Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
Step :: Step (a.) Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
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