imaginer
- noun
- /ɪˈmædʒɪnər/
- A rich imaginer and mystic seer, William Blake was fond of capitalizing his deific personages.
Examples
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As Camus said in The Myth of Sisyphus, "Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux."
Blog text (22) -
Don't let the Imaginers drape themselves in the mantle of moral superiority.
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Death in Africa along the 10th or anywhere else matters little to the imaginers.
Blog text (29) -
Maybe I wasn't much of an imaginer or an empathizer.
Fiction book (1999) -
For as long as we are a living creation full of imagined imaginers, we shall always be delighted and stunned by one creative upset and dislodgment after another.
Academic text (1994) -
Christian capitalist societies were, for all their warts and bruises, infinitely superior to the societies the Imaginers create.
Blog text (29) -
Diversity comes about because diverse imaginers are diversely, chaotically at work, creatively unable to repeat themselves, surviving in any number of conditions, ready to give and receive creative counsel.
Academic text (1994) -
I am an artist and a maker of soft things, a dreamer and imaginer, with delusions of grandeur—and as I get older, less and less realism.
Blog text (30) -
Meanwhile, here we are, a world full of created creators, imagined imaginers, going about things diversely—no two of us alike—imagining and crafting things, no two of which should ever be alike.
Academic text (1994) -
As a writer, she considered herself an imaginer, constantly creating new worlds and characters in her mind.
Synonyms
A person who has deep ideas about important subjects
A person who has ideas that are not realistic and will not work
A person who spends time on serious, important ideas
A person who has new ideas and finds new ways to solve problems
A person or tool that creates new ideas and plans
A person or tool that helps people think of new ideas
A person who thinks deeply about ideas or problems
A person who creates and explains ideas or plans clearly
A person who thinks carefully for a long time about problems or ideas
A person who makes ideas to explain things in science or art
A person who thinks mainly in pictures rather than words
A person who spends time thinking quietly and deeply
A person who spends time quietly thinking about life
A person who thinks deeply about ideas or problems
How Imaginative
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Etymology
The word imaginer comes from the verb imagine, which means 'to form a picture in the mind', and the ending -er means 'a person who does something'. So an imaginer is someone who makes ideas or mental pictures.