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How to pronounce imagination in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms imagery, imaging, mental imagery
Type of representational process
Has types vision, chimaera, chimera, dream, dreaming, envisioning, evocation, make-believe, mind's eye, picturing, pretence, pretense
Derivation imagine


he could still hear her in his imagination.
Type Words
Synonyms imaginativeness, vision
Type of creative thinking, creativeness, creativity
Has types mythical place, phantasy, fantasy, fictitious place, imaginary being, imaginary creature, fancy, imaginary place, dreaming, dream
Derivation imagine


popular imagination created a world of demons.
imagination reveals what the world could be.
Type Words
Synonyms resource, resourcefulness
Type of inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness
Has types inventory, armory, armoury

Examples of imagination

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Auerbach says it enhances imagination, geography, math and communication skills.
From the thenewstribune.com
The only ambiguity is in how far they take it, which is left to our imagination.
From the thenewstribune.com
The balance is good and the texture to the canvas strings along the imagination.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Still other islands reside in the thin line between the imagination and reality.
From the kansas.com
If only the Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, had shown the same imagination.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It is funny, showed imagination and really demonstrates how the Handy Mat works.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It's a place of the imagination, Shakespeare's, Quantum's and gradually our own.
From the post-gazette.com
With next year's Windows 8, Microsoft is letting its imagination run wild again.
From the time.com
Say what you like about Zara's dad, he demonstrably lacks little in imagination.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • 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"
  • The ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"
  • Resource: the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource"
  • (imaginative) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; " ...
  • Imagination were a three piece British soul and dance band, who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They had chart hits in twenty eight countries, earning four platinum discs, nine gold discs and over a dozen silver discs around the world between 1981 and 1983.
  • "Imagination" is a 1985 single by British New Wave artist Belouis Some, from his 1985 debut album Some People. The song reached #17 on the UK Singles Chart in early 1986, and remains his biggest hit to date.
  • Imagination is the second studio album released by Bethany Dillon. It was released on August 16, 2005.
  • Imagination is Brian Wilson's fourth solo album, and his second release of new original studio material. It was issued in 1998 on Giant Records and distributed by Warner Music.
  • Imagination is a compilation album from Dick Haymes released in 1982.