IMAGINATION


Meaning of IMAGINATION in English

n.

1.

Conception ( united with the faculty of recombining ideas so as to form a new creation ), invention, ideality, creative power, plastic power, fancy, fantasy.

2.

Imaginative faculty, faculty of original conception, faculty of invention, esemplastic faculty, power to mould the manifold of experience into new unities.

3.

Imaging power, vision of the past as present or of the possible as actual, reproductive perception, anticipative perception.

4.

Mental image, idea, conception, notion.

5.

Contrivance, scheme, device, plot.

6.

Illusion, arbitrary notion or supposition, fanciful opinion, fancy.

Soule. Dictionary of English synonyms.      Словарь английских синонимов.