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Imaging

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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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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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Pet 76% connected

A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.

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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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Radiology 76% connected

The science dealing with X-rays and other high-energy radiation.

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Vision 76% connected

The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

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Broader term 1

Picturing 76% connected

of Picture

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Derivationally related 2

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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Synonym 2

Imagery 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Imagination 92% connected

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 i…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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