Imagination vs. Imagine

Imaginationnoun

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.’;

Imagineverb

(transitive) to form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

‘Try to imagine a pink elephant.’;

Imaginationnoun

Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.

‘You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination.’;

Imagineverb

(transitive) to believe in something created by one's own mind

‘She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.’;

Imaginationnoun

Creativity; resourcefulness.

‘His imagination makes him a valuable team member.’;

Imagineverb

(transitive) to assume

‘I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.’;

Imaginationnoun

A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.

Imagineverb

(transitive) to conjecture or guess

‘I cannot even imagine what you are up to!’; ‘The board imagines the merger will increase profits by 25%’;

Imaginationnoun

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.’;

Imagineverb

(intransitive) to use one's imagination

‘Imagine that we were siblings.’;

Imaginationnoun

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.’;

Imagineverb

to contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise

Imaginationnoun

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.’;

Imagineverb

To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

‘In the night, imagining some fear,How easy is a bush supposed a bear!’;

Imaginationnoun

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.’;

Imagineverb

To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.

‘How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?’;

Imaginationnoun

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’;

Imagineverb

To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.

Imaginationnoun

the ability to form mental images of things or events;

‘he could still hear her in his imagination’;

Imagineverb

To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

Imaginationnoun

the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems;

‘a man of resource’;

Imagineverb

To think; to suppose.

‘My sister is not so defenseless leftAs you imagine.’;

Imaginationnoun

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’;

Imagineverb

form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case;

‘Can you conceive of him as the president?’;

Imaginationnoun

the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful

‘she was set in her ways and lacked imagination’;

Imagineverb

expect, believe, or suppose;

‘I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel’; ‘I thought to find her in a bad state’; ‘he didn't think to find her in the kitchen’; ‘I guess she is angry at me for standing her up’;

Imaginationnoun

the part of the mind that imagines things

‘a girl who existed only in my imagination’;

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.