imagination

1 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 fertile imagination in order to create interesting cartoons on demand Synonyms of imagination contrivance, creativity, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), ideation, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality Words Related to imagination brainstorm, brainstorming, inspiration; fecundity, fertility; ingenuity, resourcefulness; versatility; chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, illusion, mind's eye, mirage, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream; envisaging, visualization Near Antonyms of imagination literality, literalness

2 the skill and imagination to create new things she lacks the imagination to be anything but an imitator of other directors' cinematic styles Synonyms of imagination cleverness, creativeness, creativity, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, innovativeness, invention, inventiveness, originalityWords Related to imagination fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, prolificity, prolificness; capableness, resourcefulness; genius, giftedness, talent; fire, inspiration, museNear Antonyms of imagination dryness, dullness (also dulness)