Imagination vs. Fantasy
Difference Between Imagination and Fantasy
Imagination➦
Imagination is the ability to produce and simulate novel objects, sensations, and ideas in the mind without any immediate input of the senses. It is also described as the forming of experiences in one's mind, which can be re-creations of past experiences such as vivid memories with imagined changes, or they can be completely invented and possibly fantastic scenes.
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Fantasy➦
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama.
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Imagination➦
the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses
her story captured the public's imagination
she'd never been blessed with a vivid imagination
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Fantasy➦
the faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things
his researches had moved into the realms of fantasy
a fantasy world
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Imagination➦
The ability to form mental images of things that are not present to the senses or not considered to be real
The author uses her imagination to create a universe parallel to our own.
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Fantasy➦
a fantasia.
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Imagination➦
The formation of such images
a child's imagination of monsters.
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Fantasy➦
imagine the occurrence of; fantasize about
it is ludicrous to fantasy ‘disinventing’ the hydrogen bomb
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Imagination➦
One of these mental images
"some secret sense ... which ... took to itself and treasured up ... her thoughts, her imaginations, her desires" (Virginia Woolf).
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Fantasy➦
The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy.
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Imagination➦
The mind viewed as the locus or repository of this ability or these images
"This story had been rattling around in my imagination for years" (Orson Scott Card).
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Fantasy➦
Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.
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Imagination➦
The ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power of the mind; resourcefulness
handled the problems with great imagination.
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Fantasy➦
A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.
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Imagination➦
Attention, interest, or enthusiasm
an explorer's ordeal that caught the imagination of the public.
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Fantasy➦
A genre of fiction or other artistic work characterized by fanciful or supernatural elements.
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Imagination➦
The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
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Fantasy➦
A work of this genre.
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Imagination➦
Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination.
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Fantasy➦
An imagined event or sequence of mental images, such as a daydream, usually fulfilling a wish or psychological need.
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Imagination➦
Creativity; resourcefulness.
His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
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Fantasy➦
An unrealistic or improbable supposition.
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Imagination➦
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.
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Fantasy➦
(Music) See fantasia.
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Imagination➦
The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination.
Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present.
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Fantasy➦
A coin issued especially by a questionable authority and not intended for use as currency.
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Imagination➦
The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
The imagination of common language - the productive imagination of philosophers - is nothing but the representative process plus the process to which I would give the name of the "comparative."
The power of the mind to decompose its conceptions, and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure, is called its faculty of imagination.
The business of conception is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived. But we have moreover a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones together, so as to form new wholes of our creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power.
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Fantasy➦
(Obsolete) A hallucination.
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Imagination➦
The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poetAre of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet's penTurns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.
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Fantasy➦
Relating to or being a game in which participants act as owners of imaginary sports teams whose personnel consists of actual players selected from a professional sports league and team performance is determined by the combined statistics of the players.
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Imagination➦
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
The same power, which we should call fancy if employed on a production of a light nature, would be dignified with the title of imagination if shown on a grander scale.
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Fantasy➦
To imagine; visualize.
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Imagination➦
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
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Fantasy➦
That which comes from one's imagination.
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Imagination➦
the ability to form mental images of things or events;
he could still hear her in his imagination
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Fantasy➦
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
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Imagination➦
the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems;
a man of resource
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Fantasy➦
A fantastical design.
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Fantasy➦
(slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
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Fantasy➦
To fantasize (about).
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Fantasy➦
(obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
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Fantasy➦
(transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.
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Fantasy➦
Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
Is not this something more than fantasy ?
A thousand fantasiesBegin to throng into my memory.
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Fantasy➦
Fantastic designs.
Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
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Fantasy➦
To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.
Which he doth most fantasy.
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Fantasy➦
imagination unrestricted by reality;
a schoolgirl fantasy
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Fantasy➦
fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it;
she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies
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Fantasy➦
something many people believe that is false;
they have the illusion that I am very wealthy
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