imagination
Mind's creative faculty
Imagination is the mind's ability to form images, ideas, or concepts not present to the senses.
It lets you picture things that don't exist, envision possibilities, or mentally rehearse scenarios: Use your imagination.
Imagination ranges from practical problem-solving to wild fantasy.
Someone with imagination is creative or inventive; something that captures the imagination fascinates people.
It's all in your imagination dismisses something as not real.
Internal visualization capacity
- picturingForming mental images
- envisioningForming mental pictures
- visualizationForming mental or graphical images
- conceivingForming in the mind
projection · daydreaming · rendering · depiction · illustration · mental picture · inner vision · conjuring
Capacity for original creation
- originalityNovel creative quality
- ingenuityClever, original thinking
- artistryExceptional creative skill
- ideationForming mental concepts
brainstorming · novelty · innovation · resourcefulness · expression · conception · divergent thinking · experimentation
Imagined thing, unreal
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
apparition · fantasy · fabrication · fiction · invention · unreality · fancy · pipe dream
Think deeply about
- sparkTiny fiery particle
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- eurekaDiscovery triumph cry
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
breakthrough · revelation · idea · vision · stimulus · catalyst · lightbulb moment · discovery
Imaginary realm during slumber
- fairy taleMagical children's narrative
- mythologyBody of traditional tales
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- magicSupernatural or illusory power
legend · lore · unicorn · dragon · wizard · fairy · mermaid · genie
Desire to learn
- aweReverent fear and wonder
- marvelAstonishing thing or feeling
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- fascinationIntense absorbed interest
amazement · possibility · dreaming · speculation · openness · sense of wonder · childlike · play
mind's eye
Internal visualization capacity
- picturingForming mental images
- envisioningForming mental pictures
- visualizationForming mental or graphical images
conceiving · projection · daydreaming · rendering · depiction · illustration · mental picture · inner vision · conjuring · forming
inventiveness
Capacity for original creation
- originalityNovel creative quality
- ingenuityClever, original thinking
- artistryExceptional creative skill
ideation · brainstorming · novelty · innovation · resourcefulness · expression · conception · divergent thinking · experimentation · exploration
figment
Imagined thing, unreal
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
phantasm · apparition · fantasy · fabrication · fiction · invention · unreality · fancy · pipe dream · castle in the air
muse
Think deeply about
insight · breakthrough · revelation · idea · vision · stimulus · catalyst · lightbulb moment · discovery · flash
dreamworld
Imaginary realm during slumber
- fairy taleMagical children's narrative
- mythologyBody of traditional tales
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
magic · legend · lore · unicorn · dragon · wizard · fairy · mermaid · genie · sorcery
curiosity
Desire to learn
- aweReverent fear and wonder
- marvelAstonishing thing or feeling
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
fascination · amazement · possibility · dreaming · speculation · openness · sense of wonder · childlike · play · exploration
- childhoodchildhood, baby, child, kid, toys
- creativitycreativity, brainstorming, unique voice, inspiration, intuition
- family entertainmentanimated films, cartoons, G-rated, happy endings, happily ever after
- pretend playmake believe, pretend, pretend play, dress-up, dollhouse
- child developmentbaby, toddler, newborn, infancy, milestones
- mindmind, thought, cognition, consciousness, thinking
imaginationperception
Mental interpretation of stimuli
memory · reason · observation · sensation · cognition
imaginationreality
What actually exists
actuality · truth · existence · fact · literalness
imaginationliteralism
Exact meaning only
unimaginativeness · closed-mindedness · narrow-mindedness · conventionality · rigidity
- leave to the imaginationNot make explicit
- figment of imagination
- figment of one's imaginationInvented, unreal thing
- leave little to the imaginationConceals very little
- childhood imaginationCreative thinking in youth
- imaginative playFantasy-driven child activity
imaginative, unimaginative, imaginations, imaginatively, imaginativeness, reimagination