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Meanings of imagination in English
Creative ability to produce and simulate novel objects, peoples and ideas in the mind without any immediate input of the senses.
Related terms
The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.
Usage of imagination in English
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What forms of political imagination can foster solidarity and catalyse political action?
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Other missing- persons cases have also captured our imagination in recent years.
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But however important cosmologically, the hydrogen-helium cycle doesn't exactly fire the imagination.
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The poet only addresses the imagination; the painter addresses the senses directly.
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But these are products of our imagination, however real they may seem.
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The good news is Rowling's fertile imagination shows no sign of flagging.
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An early press conference shows how easily they captured the public imagination.
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THE imagination plays an important but often unacknowledged role in scientific research.
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In particular, the function of imagination in hope is discussed in depth.
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You can let your imagination run free, stripped of caution and compromise.
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The Occidental painter renders minute detail; he satisfies the imagination he evokes.
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He'd never been able to get it quite right in his imagination.
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But the imagination cannot sufficiently qualify the actual impressions of the senses.
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They lacked composure too often, and even imagination born of clear thinking.
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Builders, dreamers, and people of imagination enjoyed such places; others saw nothing.
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The very idea of balance was for the moment beyond her imagination.
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Translations for imagination
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Imagination through the time
Imagination across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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