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say it: im-aj-uh-NAY-shuhn
imagination is a noun meaning "the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
the ability to form mental images of things or events
“he could still hear her in his imagination”
the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
“a man of resource”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for imagination come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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