Imagining vs. Imagination — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Imagining and Imagination
ADVERTISEMENT
Definitions
Imagining
To form a mental picture or image of
Imagined a better life abroad.
Imagination
Imagination is the ability to produce and simulate novel objects, sensations, and ideas in the mind without any immediate input of the senses. It is also described as the forming of experiences in one's mind, which can be re-creations of past experiences such as vivid memories with imagined changes, or they can be completely invented and possibly fantastic scenes.
Imagining
To think or suppose; conjecture
I imagine you're right.
Imagination
The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses
Her story captured the public's imagination
She'd never been blessed with a vivid imagination
Imagining
To have a notion of or about without adequate foundation; fancy or believe
She imagines herself to be a true artist.
ADVERTISEMENT
Imagination
The ability to form mental images of things that are not present to the senses or not considered to be real
The author uses her imagination to create a universe parallel to our own.
Imagining
To employ the imagination.
Imagination
The formation of such images
A child's imagination of monsters.
Imagining
To have a belief or make a guess.
Imagination
One of these mental images
"some secret sense ... which ... took to itself and treasured up ... her thoughts, her imaginations, her desires" (Virginia Woolf).
ADVERTISEMENT
Imagining
Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.
Imagination
The mind viewed as the locus or repository of this ability or these images
"This story had been rattling around in my imagination for years" (Orson Scott Card).
Imagining
Present participle of imagine
Imagination
The ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power of the mind; resourcefulness
Handled the problems with great imagination.
Imagining
Present participle of imagin
Imagination
Attention, interest, or enthusiasm
An explorer's ordeal that caught the imagination of the public.
Imagination
The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
Imagination
Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination.
Imagination
Creativity; resourcefulness.
His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
Imagination
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.
Imagination
The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination.
Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present.
Imagination
The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
The imagination of common language - the productive imagination of philosophers - is nothing but the representative process plus the process to which I would give the name of the "comparative."
The power of the mind to decompose its conceptions, and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure, is called its faculty of imagination.
The business of conception is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived. But we have moreover a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones together, so as to form new wholes of our creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power.
Imagination
The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poetAre of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet's penTurns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.
Imagination
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
The same power, which we should call fancy if employed on a production of a light nature, would be dignified with the title of imagination if shown on a grander scale.
Imagination
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
Imagination
The ability to form mental images of things or events;
He could still hear her in his imagination
Imagination
The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems;
A man of resource
