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imagination

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[ UK /ɪmˌæd‍ʒɪnˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
    a man of resource
  2. the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
    imagination reveals what the world could be
    popular imagination created a world of demons
  3. the ability to form mental images of things or events
    he could still hear her in his imagination

How To Use imagination In A Sentence

  • Some self-absorbed children play elaborate fantasy games by themselves, and one can admire their creativity and imagination.
  • This series is characterised by perfect realism juxtaposed with wild imagination.
  • The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
  • This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
  • The example of the first fighter aces fixed itself in the imaginations of a generation being born just as they had met their deaths. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
  • So if you take it and call it your own, you're just uncreative and have no imagination.
  • We have here no mythicized version of a real journey but a voyage of the imagination. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
  • In the child's imagination, fuelled by science-fiction, the aliens are about to land.
  • Memories are to be prized but not relied upon for they are always undermined by the imagination.
  • I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein 
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