OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14490

imagination

/ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
imaginación • magín
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.
She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination.
imaginación
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.
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.
It is a pleasant imagination to conceive a spirit iustly ballanced betweene two equall desires.
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