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Look up: imagination

  1. imagination
    [n] - the ability to form mental images of things or events 2. [n] - the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Imagination
    Im·ag`i·na'tion noun [ Middle English imaginacionum , French imagination , from Latin imaginatio . See Imagine .] 1. 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. « Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is < ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/I/10

  3. imagination
    1. 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. 'Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination.' (Glanvill) 'Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; join ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  4. imagination
    imagery noun the ability to form mental images of things or events; `he could still hear her in his imagination`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. imagination
    noun the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; `popular imagination created a world of demons`; `imagination reveals what the world could be`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. Imagination
    `Imagination` is the ability to form mental images, or the ability to sponteneously generate images within one's own mind. It helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process. A basic training for imagination is the listening to storytelling (narrative), in which the exactness of the chosen words is th...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination

  7. Imagination
    • (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. • (n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion. • (n.) The power to recombine the mater...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. imagination
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    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/10

  9. imagination
    imagination 1. The ability to form images and ideas in the mind, especially of things never seen or experienced directly. 2. A creative part of mind; the part of the mind where ideas, thoughts, and images are formed. 3. The faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses. 4. The action or process o...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  10. imagination
    1. the ability to form mental images of things or events
    2. the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

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  11. imagination
    the faculty responsible for forming concepts out of the 'manifold of intuition' and for synthesizing intuitions with concepts to form objects which are ready to be judged.
    Found on http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/ksp1/KSPglos

  12. Imagination
    Imagination designates a mental process consisting of: The revival of sense images derived from earlier perceptions (the reproductive imagination), and the combination of these elementary images into new unities (the creative or productive imagination.) The creative imagination is of two kinds: the fancy which is relatively spontaneous and uncon...
    Found on http://www.ditext.com/runes/i.html


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