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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creative thought, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy, idea, ideality, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, inventiveness, mental agility, notion, originality, perceptibility, realization, resourcefulness, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, unreality, verve, vision, visualization, wit, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
| Main Entry: | imaginativeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creative thought, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy, idea, ideality, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, inventiveness, mental agility, notion, originality, perceptibility, realization, resourcefulness, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, unreality, verve, vision, visualization, wit, wittiness |
| Concept: | Imagination. |
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-nouns
imagination; originality; invention; fancy; inspiration; verve., warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy., "mind's eye"; "such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest]., ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism, castle-building., dreaming; phrensy, frenzy; ecstasy, extasy; calenture (delirium); reverie, trance; daydream, golden dream; somnambulism., conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, "a fine frenzy"; cloudland, dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming fancies" [Macbeth]; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery., conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare., flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction (novel); Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar (hope)., illusion (error); phantom (fallacy of vision); Fata Morgana (ignis fatuus); vapor (cloud); stretch of the imagination (exaggeration); mythogenesis., idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus; romancer, dreamer; somnambulist; rhapsodist (fanatic); castle-buildier, fanciful projector.
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| Concept: | Vision. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; perceptions of light |
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vision, sight, optics, eyesight., view, look, espial, glance, ken, coup d'oeil; glimpse, glint, peep; gaze, stare, leer; perlustration, contemplation; conspection, conspectuity; regard, survey;introspection; reconnaissance, speculation, watch, espionage, espionnage, autopsy; ocular inspection, ocular demonstration; sight-seeing., point of view; gazebo, loophole, belvedere, watchtower., field of view; theater, amphitheater, arena, vista, horizon; commanding view, bird's eye view; periscope., visual organ, organ of vision; eye; naked eye, unassisted eye; retina, pupil, iris, cornea, white; optics, orbs; saucer eyes, goggle eyes, gooseberry eyes., short sight; clear sight, sharp sight, quick sight, eagle sight, piercing sight, penetrating sight, clear glance, sharp glance, quick glance, eagle glance, piercing glance, penetrating glance, clear eye, sharp eye, quick eye, eagle eye, piercing eye, penetrating eye; perspicacity, discernment; catopsis., eagle, hawk; cat, lynx; Argus., evil eye; basilisk, cockatrice [Mythical].
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| Antonyms: | blindness |
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