Imagination

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1. Noun

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.

2. Noun

The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.

3. Noun

The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.

4. Noun

A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.

5. Noun

the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare

6. Noun

the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"
Vocabulary classified under Psychology
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