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    imagination
    /ɪˌmadʒɪˈneɪʃn/

    noun

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  2. something that you think exists or is true, although in fact it is not real or true: Was she paying him a lot of attention or was it just my imagination? Is it my imagination or is David behaving strangely at the moment? B1 [ U ] the ability to think of new ideas: It's a job that needs someone with a bit of imagination. More examples.

  3. The meaning of IMAGINATION is the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality. How to use imagination in a sentence.

  4. Your imagination is the ability that you have to form pictures or ideas in your mind of things that are new and exciting, or things that you have not experienced. Antonia is a woman with a vivid imagination.

  5. noun. the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses. the action or process of forming such images or concepts. the faculty of producing ideal creations consistent with reality, as in literature, as distinct from the power of creating illustrative or decorative imagery.

  6. the part of your mind that creates ideas or pictures of things that are not real or that you have not seen: [ usually singular ] There's nothing out here - it's just your imagination. Fewer examples. Children have very vivid imaginations. She thought she saw someone, or perhaps it was her imagination.

  7. Imagination refers to the process of forming images or concepts in the mind, often images of things that are not really there. That shark in your bathtub must have been in your imagination — or was it?

  8. noun. /ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃn/ Idioms. [uncountable, countable] the ability to create pictures in your mind; the part of your mind that does this. a vivid/fertile imagination. He has no imagination. It doesn't take much imagination to guess what she meant. I won't tell you his reaction—I'll leave that to your imagination.

  9. Your imagination is the ability that you have to form pictures or ideas in your mind of things that are new and exciting, or things that you have not experienced. Latanya is a woman with a vivid imagination.

  10. 1. the action or faculty of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses. 2. creative talent or ability.

  11. IMAGINATION meaning: 1 : the ability to imagine things that are not real the ability to form a picture in your mind of something that you have not seen or experienced; 2 : the ability to think of new things