IMAGINATION
\ɪmˌad͡ʒɪnˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɪmˌadʒɪnˈeɪʃən], \ɪ_m_ˌa_dʒ_ɪ_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of IMAGINATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
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A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The picture-forming power of the mind; the ability to create thoughts, ideas, or fancies; especially, the higher forms of this power exercised in art and poetry, usually termed the creative power; any product of this mind-power; a conception or idea; fanciful opinion; fancy; invention.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The strictly poetic or creative faculty as exhibited in the vivid conceptions and combinations, more especially of the fine arts; image in the mind; idea; contrivance or device; an unsolid or fanciful opinion.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Scheme or contrivance formed in the mind; that power or faculty of the mind by which it conceives or forms ideas of things.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The faculty of forming in the mind an assemblage of images and combinations of ideas which are not always in connexion with external objects.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. The mental faculty which apprehends and forms ideas of external objects ; - the faculty of recalling to the mind such ideas, and the feelings or impressions which attended them ;-the power of reproducing these mental sensations, and of combining them, so as to exhibit them vividly in expressed thought, figures, pictures ; the poetical faculty ; inventive powers ;- any single mental idea ; a conception ;- a fanciful or vain idea ; a conceit ; - a scheme ; a contrivance ;- the first notion or purpose in the mind.
