Associations to the word «Imagination»

Wiktionary

IMAGINATION, noun. The image-making power of the mind; the act of creating or reproducing ideally an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
IMAGINATION, noun. Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
IMAGINATION, noun. Creativity; resourcefulness.
IMAGINATION, noun. A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion; an imagining; something imagined.

Dictionary definition

IMAGINATION, noun. 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".
IMAGINATION, noun. The ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination".
IMAGINATION, noun. The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource".

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan