imagination

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
• Creativity; resourcefulness.
• A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.

Related

Similar words

• creativity, fancy, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness

Origin

• From Middle English ymaginacioun, from Old French imaginacion, ymaginacion, from Latin imāginātiō.