Imagination

Noun

 * 1) The image-making power of the mind; the act of creating or reproducing ideally an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
 * 2) Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
 * 3) Creativity; resourcefulness.
 * 4) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion; an imagining; something imagined.

Adjectives for Imagination
luxuriant; emotional; proud; copious; splendid; morbid; ardent; vivid; exacting; realizing; kindling; atavistic; inquisitive; teeming; creative; youthful; pure; retired; somber; poetic; sympathetic; rustic; capricious; irreverent; kindly; lively; indolent; veracious; astounding; exuberant; glorious; fertile; constructive; powerful; sanest; diseased; dim; contemporaneous; heated; restless; headlong; respective; fond; sluggish; cultivated; warm; historic; disorderly; ardent; ribald; popular; foul; cumulative; daring; tensest; fruitful; disordered; morbid; pure; solitary; retired; limitless; salty; fever-driven; agile; plastic; epic; hyperbolical; inventive; apt; quick; gifted; robust; defective; delicate; irrepressible; unconfinable; dire; dark; mortal; heated; distempered; boyish; idealizing; burning; jaded; penetrating; scientific; riotous; melancholic.

Verbs for Imagination
ballast—; capture—; check—; confine—; confound—; curb—; develop—; distort—; drift in—; dull—; enslave—; exercise—; fire—; flow from—; inflame—; infuse into—; kindle—; nurture—; parade before-pursue in—; revel in—; seize—; spur-stagger—; stain—; stimulate—; stretch-tax—; transcend—; breaks loose—; —elucidates; —envisages; —pictures; —recoils —runs away; —soars; —vaults.

Thesaurus
apparition, brainchild, bubble, chimera, creativity, delirium, eidolon, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, hallucination, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imaginativeness, imagining, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, insubstantial image, intelligence, invention, inventiveness, maggot, make-believe, myth, phantasm, phantom, romance, sick fancy, thick-coming fancies, thinking, thought, trip, vapor, vision, visualization, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, wit

Pronunciation

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Synonyms

 * creativity, fancy, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness

Antonyms

 * dullness

Translations

 * Arabic: خيال
 * Bengali:
 * Catalan: imaginació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: imagination
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: דמיון (dimyon)


 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ímyndunarafl
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: wyobraźnia
 * Romanian: imaginație, fantezie, forță de imaginare
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: imaginación
 * Turkish: hayal gücü


 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Polish: urojenie


 * Romanian: închipuire, imaginare, iluzionare
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Arabic: صورة ذهنية
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Vorstellung
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ímyndun


 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خه‌یاڵ
 * Polish: wyobrażenie
 * Romanian: imagine
 * Spanish: