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noun, the faculty or action of producing ideas, esp mental images of what is not present or has not been experienced
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imagination
- 1) noun, the faculty or action of producing ideas, esp mental images of what is not present or has not been experienced
- 2) noun, mental creative ability
- 3) noun, the ability to deal resourcefully with unexpected or unusual problems, circumstances, etc
- 4) noun, (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
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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inspiration, fancy, vision, invention, ingenuity, enterprise, insight, wit, originality, inventive, resourceful, mind's eye
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