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UK
/ɪmˌædʒɪnˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
a man of resource -
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 -
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 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
- With a wide and varied selection of events, displays and performances, the festival captures the spirit of Yeats's works and the imagination of Sligo audiences.
- Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours. William James
