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imagination
Overview of noun imagination
The noun imagination has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (16) 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")
2. (9) imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery -- (the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination")
3. (4) resource, resourcefulness, imagination -- (the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun imagination
3 senses of imagination
Sense 1
imagination, imaginativeness, vision
=> creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
=> ability, power
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
=> representational process
=> basic cognitive process
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
resource, resourcefulness, imagination
=> inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness
=> creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
=> ability, power
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun imagination
3 senses of imagination
Sense 1
imagination, imaginativeness, vision
=> imaginary place, mythical place, fictitious place
=> fancy
=> fantasy, phantasy
=> dream, dreaming
=> imaginary being, imaginary creature
Sense 2
imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
=> mind's eye
=> vision
=> picturing, envisioning
=> dream, dreaming
=> chimera, chimaera
=> evocation
=> pretense, pretence, make-believe
Sense 3
resource, resourcefulness, imagination
=> armory, armoury, inventory
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun imagination
3 senses of imagination
Sense 1
imagination, imaginativeness, vision
=> creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
Sense 2
imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
=> representational process
Sense 3
resource, resourcefulness, imagination
=> inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness
Antonyms of noun imagination
Member Holonyms of noun imagination
Substance Holonyms of noun imagination
Part Holonyms of noun imagination
Member Meronyms of noun imagination
Substance Meronyms of noun imagination
Part Meronyms of noun imagination
Meronyms of noun imagination
Holonyms of noun imagination
Attributes of noun imagination
Derived Forms of noun imagination
2 of 3 senses of imagination
Sense 1
imagination, imaginativeness, vision
RELATED TO>(verb) imagine#1
=> imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
Sense 2
imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
RELATED TO>(verb) imagine#1
=> imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
Domain of noun imagination
Domain Terms of noun imagination
Familiarity of noun imagination
imagination used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun imagination
3 senses of imagination
Sense 1
imagination, imaginativeness, vision
> creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
=> fecundity, fruitfulness
=> flight
=> genius, wizardry
=> imagination, imaginativeness, vision
=> invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
=> inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness
Sense 2
imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
> representational process
=> symbol, symbolization, symbolisation, symbolic representation
=> typification, exemplification
=> depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayal
=> anthropomorphism, theanthropism
=> imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
Sense 3
resource, resourcefulness, imagination
> inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness
=> resource, resourcefulness, imagination
Meronyms of noun imagination
3 senses of imagination
Sense 1
imagination, imaginativeness, vision
=> creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
HAS PART: divergent thinking, out-of-the-box thinking
Sense 3
resource, resourcefulness, imagination
=> inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness
=> creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
HAS PART: divergent thinking, out-of-the-box thinking
Holonyms of noun imagination
Grep of noun imagination
imagination
imagination image
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