Imagination
Imagination
#515. Imagination. -- N. imagination; originality; invention; fancy;
inspiration; verve.
- warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine
imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination,
wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful
imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy.
- "mind's eye"; "such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest].
- ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism, castle-building.
- dreaming; phrensy[obs], frenzy; ecstasy, extasy[obs]; calenture &c.
(delirium) 503[obs]; reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream;
somnambulism.
- conception, Vorstellung[Ger], excogitation[obs], "a fine frenzy";
cloudland[obs], dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming
fancies" [Macbeth]; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery.
- conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera;
phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey[obs], whimsy; vagary,
rhapsody, romance, gest[obs], geste[obs], extravaganza; air drawn dagger,
bugbear, nightmare.
- flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the
air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne[Fr]; Utopia,
Atlantis[obs], happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John,
kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction &c. (novel) 594; Arabian
nights[obs]; le pot au lait[Fr]; dream of Alnashar &c. (hope) 858[obs].
- illusion &c. (error) 495; phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; Fata
Morgana &c. (ignis fatuus) 423[Lat]; vapor &c. (cloud) 353; stretch of the
imagination &c. (exaggeration) 549; mythogenesis[obs].
- idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus[obs]; romancer, dreamer;
somnambulist; rhapsodist &c. (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful
projector.
- V. imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream
up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's
Dream].
- create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise, strike
out something new.
- set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention;
rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains;
excogitate[obs]; brainstorm.
- give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give
fancy; indulge in reverie.
- visualize, envision, conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, represent
oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen[Ger].
- float in the mind; suggest itself &c. (thought) 451.
- Adj. imagined &c. v.; ben trovato[It]; air drawn, airbuilt[obs].
- imagining &cv. v, imaginative; original, inventive, creative, fertile.
- romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic,
unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic.
- ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus[Lat]; unsubsantial[obs] &c.
4; illusory &c. (fallacious) 495.
- fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical;
imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic,
fantastical[obs]; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic[obs].
- Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; aegri somnia
vana[Lat][obs]; dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum
[obs][Latin][Horace]; "fancy light from fancy caught" [Tennyson];
"imagination rules the world" [Napoleon]; l'imagination gallope[Fr], le
jugement ne va que le pas[French]; musaeo contingens cuncta lepore
[Latin][Lucretius]; tous songes sont mensonges[French]; Wahrheil und
Dichtung[German].