Entry Word: imagination

Function: noun

Meaning: 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>

Synonyms creativity, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness

Related Words brainstorm, brainstorming, inspiration; fecundity, fertility; ingenuity, originality; versatility; chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, illusion, mirage, phantasm, pipe dream; envisaging, visualization

Near Antonyms literalness