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imagination
[ ih-maj-uh-ney-shuhn ]
noun
- the action or process of forming such images or concepts.
- the faculty of producing ideal creations consistent with reality, as in literature, as distinct from the power of creating illustrative or decorative imagery. Compare fancy ( def 9 ).
- the product of imagining a conception or mental creation, often a baseless or fanciful one.
- ability to face and resolve difficulties; resourcefulness:
a job that requires imagination.
Synonyms: , ,
- Psychology. the power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images reproductive imagination or of recombining former experiences in the creation of new images directed at a specific goal or aiding in the solution of problems creative imagination.
- (in Kantian epistemology) synthesis of data from the sensory manifold into objects by means of the categories.
- Archaic. a plan, scheme, or plot.
imagination
/ 瑟藢尘忙诲萧瑟藞苍别瑟蕛蓹苍 /
noun
- the faculty or action of producing ideas, esp mental images of what is not present or has not been experienced
- mental creative ability
- the ability to deal resourcefully with unexpected or unusual problems, circumstances, etc
- (in romantic literary criticism, esp that of S. T. Coleridge) a creative act of perception that joins passive and active elements in thinking and imposes unity on the poetic material Compare fancy
Derived Forms
- 颈尘藢补驳颈藞苍补迟颈辞苍补濒, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 颈路尘补驳顎卛路苍补顎僼颈辞苍路补濒 adjective
- 苍辞苍顎卛尘路补驳顎卛路苍补顎僼颈辞苍路补濒 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of imagination1
Idioms and Phrases
see figment of one's imagination .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
"India will identify, track and punish" the people behind the attack in a way "beyond their imagination", Modi said in a fiery speech days after the killings last week.
The story also deals with the nature of imagination, the former Oxford English teacher said.
Fascinating results 鈥 the data from space science missions 鈥 fires the imagination.
We try to turn next to nothing into something, but even the imagination is tired.
In other words, we train the defence and leave the attack to the imagination of the forwards.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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