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Imagination

The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.

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Armory 76% connected

A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.

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Chimaera 76% connected

A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and…

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Chimera 76% connected

A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

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Dream 76% connected

The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

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Dreaming 76% connected

of Dream

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Evocation 76% connected

The act of calling out or forth.

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Fancy 76% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Fantasy 76% connected

Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.

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Inventory 76% connected

An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a decea…

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Make-believe 76% connected

A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.

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Phantasy 76% connected

See Fantasy, and Fancy.

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Picturing 76% connected

of Picture

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Pretence 76% connected

Alt. of Pretenceless

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Pretense 76% connected

Alt. of Pretence

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Vision 76% connected

The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

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Cleverness 76% connected

The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

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Creativeness 76% connected

The quality of being creative.

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Ingeniousness 76% connected

The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.

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Ingenuity 76% connected

The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.

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Envisage 74% connected

To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

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Envisage 74% connected

To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

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Project 74% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Project 74% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Imagery 92% connected

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

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Imaging 92% connected

of Image

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Resource 92% connected

That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.

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Vision 92% connected

The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

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