- imagination, imaginativeness, vision - 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"
--1 is a kind of creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
--1 has particulars:imaginary place, mythical place; fancy; fantasy, phantasy; dream, dreaming; imaginary being, imaginary creature Derived form: verb imagine1 - imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery - the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"
--2 is a kind of representational process
--2 has particulars:mind's eye; vision; picturing, envisioning; dream, dreaming; chimera, chimaera; evocation; pretense, pretence, make-believe Derived form: verb imagine1 - resource, resourcefulness, imagination - the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource"
--3 is a kind of inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness
--3 has particulars: armory, armoury, inventory