Noun: imagination
| Singular | imagination |
| Plural | imaginations |
Sample Sentences
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Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
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She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
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You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination.
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His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
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It is a pleasant imagination to conceive a spirit iustly ballanced betweene two equall desires. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Youth and Age”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like imagination
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English ymaginacioun, from Old French imaginacion, ymaginacion, from Latin imāginātiō. Equivalent to imagine + -ation. See: Middle English Nouns '
ymaginacioun', Latin Nouns '
imāginātiō'.
Verbs referencing "imagination"
Finnish Nouns
imaginaatio.