imagination

/i,mædʤi'neiʃn/

Thân thiện

A child uses their imagination to draw a colorful dragon.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The ability to form mental images of things or events: The faculty of creating ideas, pictures, or concepts in the mind that are not immediately present to the senses.
   • The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems: The creative use of the mind to find innovative solutions.
   • The formation of a mental image of something not perceived as real: The act of conceiving something that does not exist in reality or is not currently present.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • Children often have a vivid imagination.
  • He used his imagination to solve the puzzle.
  • The story was a product of her wild imagination.

Advanced Usage

• "To capture the imagination": To fascinate or inspire someone's creative thoughts.
  • The new scientific discovery captured the public's imagination.
• "A figment of one's imagination": Something that is not real and is created by the mind.
  • The sound in the attic was just a figment of her imagination.

Variants and Related Words

• Imagine (verb): To form a mental image or concept of.
  • Can you imagine a world without war?
• Imaginative (adjective): Having or showing creativity or inventiveness.
  • She is an imaginative writer.
• Imaginary (adjective): Existing only in the imagination; not real.
  • The child has an imaginary friend.

Synonyms

• Creativity: The use of imagination or original ideas to create something.
• Ingenuity: The quality of being clever, original, and inventive.
• Fancy: The faculty of imagining things, especially light or playful thoughts.

Related Phrases

• Flight of imagination: A series of creative, often fanciful, ideas.
  • His novel is a remarkable flight of imagination.
• Stretch one's imagination: To think creatively or beyond usual limits.
  • This challenging role will stretch the actor's imagination.

Idioms

• In one's imagination: Existing only as a thought, not in reality.
  • The threat was mostly in his imagination.
• Use your imagination: A prompt to think creatively or to fill in details oneself.
  • I won't describe it; just use your imagination.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
   • a man of resource
2. the ability to form mental images of things or events
   • he could still hear her in his imagination
3. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• resource
• resourcefulness
• imaging
• imagery
• mental imagery
• imaginativeness
• vision