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[syn: imagination, imaginativeness, vision]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Imaginative \Im*ag"i*na*tive\, a. [F. imaginatif.]
1. Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination,
generally in the highest sense of the word.
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In all the higher departments of imaginative art,
nature still constitutes an important element.
--Mure.
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2. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having
a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.
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Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very
fanciful mind. --Coleridge.
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3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
Im*ag"i*na*tive*ly, adv. -- Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness, n.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
imaginativeness \imaginativeness\ n.
the capability of imagining; the power of imagination.
Syn: imagination, vision.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
imaginativeness
n 1: 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" [syn:
imagination, imaginativeness, vision]