imagination | Definition of imagination

Synonyms and Antonyms of imagination

1 the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others

a cartoonist needs a fertile imagination in order to create interesting cartoons on demand

Synonyms of imagination

contrivance, creativity, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), ideation, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality

Words Related to imagination

brainstorm, brainstorming, inspiration

fecundity, fertility

ingenuity, resourcefulness

chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, illusion, mind's eye, mirage, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream

envisaging, visualization

Near Antonyms of imagination

literality, literalness

2 the skill and imagination to create new things

she lacks the imagination to be anything but an imitator of other directors' cinematic styles

Synonyms of imagination

cleverness, creativeness, creativity, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, innovativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality

Words Related to imagination

fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, prolificity, prolificness

capableness, resourcefulness

genius, giftedness, talent

fire, inspiration, muse

Near Antonyms of imagination

dryness, dullness (also dulness)