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Synonyms for imagination
noun power to create in one’s mind

thought
artistry
imagery
ingenuity
intelligence
image
insight
idea
fancy
resourcefulness
originality

fantasy
wit
awareness
inventiveness
vision
inspiration
conception
perceptibility
cognition
creation
creativity

supposition
illusion
invention
chimera
enterprise
realization
acuteness
fabrication
sally
notion
verve

thoughtfulness
flight of fancy
visualization
ideality
wittiness
unreality
creative thought
mental agility

Antonyms for imagination

inability
ignorance
reality
death

existence
concrete
fact
truth

being
entity
material
substance

Concept Thesaurus for word imagination
Synonyms – noun

imagination
inspiration
excited imagination
boiling imagination
playful imagination
“mind’s eye”
idealism
dreaming
extasy
daydream
Vorstellung
dreamland
[Macbeth]
conceit
dream
phantasm
whim
rhapsody
extravaganza
flying Dutchman
chateau en Espagne
millennium
work of fiction (novel)
illusion (error)
stretch of the imagination (exaggeration)
visionary
somnambulist

originality
verve.
sanguine imagination
wild imagination
lively imagination
“such stuff as dreams are made of”
romanticism
phrensy
calenture (delirium)
golden dream
excogitation
flight of fancy
creation of the brain
maggot
vision
phantasy
whimsey
romance
air drawn dagger
great sea serpent
Utopia
fairyland
Arabian nights
phantom (fallacy of vision)
mythogenesis.
mopus
rhapsodist (fanatic)

invention
warm imagination
ardent imagination
bold imagination
fertile imagination
[Tempest].
utopianism
frenzy
reverie
somnambulism.
“a fine frenzy”
fumes of fancy
coinage of the brain
figment
shadow
fantasy
whimsy
gest
bugbear
man in the moon
Atlantis
land of Prester John
le pot au lait
Fata Morgana (ignis fatuus)
idealist
romancer
castle-buildier

fancy
heated imagination
fiery imagination
daring imagination
fancy.
ideality
castle-building.
ecstasy
trance
conception
cloudland
“thick coming fancies”
imagery.
myth
chimera
fancy
vagary
geste
nightmare.
castle in the air
happy valley
kindgom of Micomicon
dream of Alnashar (hope)
vapor (cloud)
romanticist
dreamer
fanciful projector.

Synonyms – verbs

imagine
realize
[Midsummer Night’s Dream].
invent
strike out something new.
rack one’s brains
give play
indulge in reverie.
picture- oneself
suggest itself (thought)

fancy
dream
create
coin
set one’s wits to work
ransack one’s brains
give the reins
conjure up a vision
figure to oneself

conceive
dream of
originate
fabricate
strain one’s invention
cudgel one’s brains
give a loose to the imagination
fancy oneself
vorstellen.

idealize
“give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name”
devise
improvise
crack one’s invention
excogitate.
give fancy
represent oneself
float in the mind

Synonyms – adjectives

imagined
imagining &cv. v
creative
flighty
Utopian
in the clouds
fabulous
chimerical
fancy
fairy

ben trovato
imaginative
fertile.
extravagant
Quixotic.
in nubibus
legendary
imaginary
fanciful
fairy- like

air drawn
original
romantic
fanatic
ideal
unsubsantial
mythic
visionary
fantastical
gestic.

airbuilt.
inventive
high flown
enthusiastic
unreal
illusory (fallacious)
mythological
notional
whimsical

Synonyms – phrases
“a change came o’er the spirit of my dream” [Byron]; aegri somnia vana; dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum [Latin] [Horace]; “fancy light from fancy caught” [Tennyson]; “imagination rules the world” [Napoleon]; l’imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas [French]; musaeo contingens cuncta lepore [Latin; Lucretius]; tous songes sont mensonges [French]; Wahrheil und Dichtung [German].
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