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Meaning of 'imagination'
Meaning of 'imagination' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Imagination 
[ n.]
- 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. [ n.]- 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.
- 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.
- A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
Meaning of 'imagination' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. imagination [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
- the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
Example in sentence:
- a man of resource
Meaning (2):
- the ability to form mental images of things or events
- the ability to form mental images of things or events
Example in sentence:
- he could still hear her in his imagination
Meaning (3):
- the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
- the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
Example in sentence:
- imagination reveals what the world could be;
- popular imagination created a world of demons
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