imagination

  • 11imagination — (n.) faculty of the mind which forms and manipulates images, mid 14c., ymaginacion, from O.Fr. imaginacion concept, mental picture; hallucination, from L. imaginationem (nom. imaginatio) imagination, a fancy, noun of action from pp. stem of… …

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  • 12imagination — [i maj΄i nā′shən] n. [ME ymaginacioun < OFr imagination < L imaginatio < pp. of imaginari: see IMAGINE] 1. a) the act or power of forming mental images of what is not actually present b) the act or power of creating mental images of what …

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  • 13Imagination — (lat.), Einbildung, Einbildungskraft …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 14Imagination — (lat.), Einbildung; Einbildungskraft …

    Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • 15imagination — index comprehension, creation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 16Imagination — Imagination,die:⇨Einbildungskraft …

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  • 17imagination — [n] power to create in one’s mind acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creative thought, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, ideality, illusion, image, imagery,… …

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  • 18imagination — ► NOUN 1) the faculty or action of forming ideas or images in the mind. 2) the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful …

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  • 19imagination — (i ma ji na sion ; en vers, de six syllabes) s. f. 1°   Faculté que nous avons de nous rappeler vivement et de voir en quelque sorte les objets qui ne sont plus sous nos yeux. •   Je crois, monsieur, que vous n avez pas l imagination si tendre qu …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 20Imagination — [ Olin Levi Warner, Imagination (1896). Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.] Imagination is the ability to form mental images/sounds/feelings, or the ability to spontaneously generate images/sounds/feelings within one… …

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