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imagination

Entry Word:: imagination
Function:: noun

Text: the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others<a cartoonist needs a good imagination in order to think up and draw interesting cartoons>Synonymscreativity, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), imaginativeness, invention, inventivenessRelated Wordsbrainstorm, brainstorming, inspiration; fecundity, fertility; ingenuity, originality; versatility; chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, illusion, mirage, phantasm, pipe dream; envisaging, visualizationNear Antonymsliteralness

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