(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~ is the ability that you have to form pictures or ideas in your mind of things that are new and exciting, or things that you have not experienced.
Antonia is a woman with a vivid ~...
The Government approach displays a lack of ~.
N-VAR
2.
Your ~ is the part of your mind which allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life.
Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my ~.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
3.
If you say that someone or something captured your ~, you mean that you thought they were interesting or exciting when you saw them or heard them for the first time.
Italian football captured the ~ of the nation last season.
PHRASE: V inflects
4.
If you say that something stretches your ~, you mean that it is good because it makes you think about things that you had not thought about before.
Their films are exciting and really stretch the ~.
PHRASE: V inflects approval
5.
not by any stretch of the ~: see stretch