imagination
pronunciation
How to pronounce imagination in British English:
UK [ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃn]
How to pronounce imagination in American English:
US [ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃn]
-
- Noun:
- the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
- the ability to form mental images of things or events
- the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
Word Origin
- imagination (n.)
- "faculty of the mind which forms and manipulates images," mid-14c., ymaginacion, from Old French imaginacion "concept, mental picture; hallucination," from Latin imaginationem (nominative imaginatio) "imagination, a fancy," noun of action from past participle stem of imaginari (see imagine).
Example
- 1. Perhaps yours is a failure of imagination .
- 2. I grew up with a real imagination for catastrophe .
- 3. In those years , benazir captured people 's imagination .
- 4. Does having a good imagination help you learn the language ?
- 5. Europe and referendums have become ineluctably linked in the tory imagination .