English dictionary
Hint: Asterisk (*) is a wildcard. Asterisk substitutes zero or more characters.
English noun: imagination | |||
| 1. | imagination (cognition) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | ||
| Samples | Popular imagination created a world of demons. Imagination reveals what the world could be. | ||
| Synonyms | imaginativeness, vision | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | creative thinking, creativeness, creativity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dream, dreaming, fancy, fantasy, fictitious place, imaginary being, imaginary creature, imaginary place, mythical place, phantasy | ||
| 2. | imagination (cognition) the ability to form mental images of things or events | ||
| Samples | He could still hear her in his imagination. | ||
| Synonyms | imagery, imaging, mental imagery | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | representational process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | chimaera, chimera, dream, dreaming, envisioning, evocation, make-believe, mind's eye, picturing, pretence, pretense, vision | ||
| 3. | imagination (cognition) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | ||
| Samples | A man of resource. | ||
| Synonyms | resource, resourcefulness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | armory, armoury, inventory | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
Web design: Orcapia v/Per Bang. English edition: .
2024 onlineordbog.dk
Web design: Orcapia v/Per Bang. English edition: .
2024 onlineordbog.dk