imagining

Examples

• All

• Moreover, these imaginings are probably a source of pleasure and entail a feeling of social belonging.

  Academic text (2000)

• We imagine a future, and our imaginings horrify us.

  Oppenheimer (2023)

• I like keeping to myself and imagining little stories.

  W Magazine

• I would look older than I do now, imagining that such things are possible.

• We do all the imagining for you.

  Cry Wolf (1947)

• As with all her efforts toward art, it did not match up with her imagining of it.

  Fiction book (1997)

• I want to do the imagining.

  Barbie (2023)

• But his soul, his new self-- it is in a heaven beyond our imagining.

  The Wicker Tree (2011)

• One felt the presence of the other in one's daily imaginings, the strength of the other in dreams.

  Fiction book (1996)

• If creating a work of art is a coupling of imagining and crafting, so is its performance.

  Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

V

visualization

vsimagining

• Specialized

14 5.2

To form a clear picture in your mind to understand or reach a goal

is broader and includes casual or involuntary mental pictures

M

mental picture

vsimagining

8 3.5

A clear image you form in your mind

is the overall mental activity that yields such impressions

M

mental image

vsimagining

7 3.8

A picture you make in your mind of something not there

is the broader act that can produce such clear pictures

D

dreaming

vsimagining

7 2.8

Thinking about things you want or imagine while you are awake

is the neutral mental action that can be deliberate or factual

I

ideation

vsimagining

• Jargon

6 7.9

To think of new plans or solutions for a problem

is the general mind activity that may or may not develop ideas

C

conceptualization

vsimagining

• Specialized

5 7.5

Forming a clear idea of something in your mind

is broader and also covers simple sensory images

E

evocation

vsimagining

4 7.7

Bringing a memory, feeling, or idea to mind

focuses on creating new mental content rather than recalling it

M

mental imagery

vsimagining

• Specialized

1 4.2

Ability to make pictures in your mind of things that are not there

is the actual act or result produced by that ability

E

envisioning

vsimagining

1 5.1

Making a clear picture in your mind of something, often of the future

is more general and covers any kind of mental forming

M

mental representation

vsimagining

• Specialized

1 6.7

An idea in your mind that stands for something you remember or imagine

is the wider act that can produce such internal stand-ins

T

thought-image

vsimagining

7.7

An image you make in your mind when you imagine something

is the general process that produces such single pictures

P

picturing

vsimagining

3.5

To imagine scenes or events clearly in your mind

is the general mental action that includes that activity

E

envisionment

vsimagining

6.8

A mental picture of a plan or future result

is the general mental creation not limited to plans or outcomes

How Vivid

to vision

1 5.9

fantasy

453 3.7

imagining

12 3.5

idea

∞ 1.0

thought

∞ 1.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology