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imagination - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, notion, originality, realization, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, verve, vision, wit, creative thought, ideality, inventiveness, mental agility, perceptibility, resourcefulness, unreality, visualization, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | creativity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artistry |
| Synonyms: | cleverness, genius, imagination, ingenuity, inspiration, originality, talent, vision, imaginativeness, inventiveness, resourcefulness |
| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy thought of when awake |
| Synonyms: | castle in the air*, conceiving, dream, fancy, fancying, figment of imagination, fond hope, fool's paradise, head trip, imagination, imagining, in a zone, mind trip, musing, phantasm, phantasy, pie in the sky*, pipe dream, reverie, stargazing, trip*, vision, wish, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
| Synonyms: | anecdote, book, concoction, crock*, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fish story*, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, prevarication, romance, smoke*, tale, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, best seller, cliff-hanger, clothesline, figment of imagination, hooey, potboiler, storytelling, tall story, terminological inexactitude, work of imagination |
| Antonyms: | truth, non-fiction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, astuteness, bent, brain, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, knack, mature, originality, perspicacity, power, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom, Einstein, aptness, brilliance, inventiveness, percipience, precocity, superability |
| Antonyms: | idiot, imbecile |
| Main Entry: | make-believe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unreality |
| Synonyms: | charade, disguise, dream, fairy tale, fantasy, imagination, pageant, pretense, pretension, sham, dissimulation, fakery, playacting, pretentiousness |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tradition, fairy story, folk ballad, mythos, tall story |
| Antonyms: | fact, truth, non-fiction |
| Main Entry: | originality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creativeness |
| Synonyms: | boldness, cleverness, creativity, daring, freshness, imagination, individuality, ingenuity, innovation, invention, newness, nonconformity, novelty, spirit, brilliance, creative spirit, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, innovativeness, inventiveness, modernity, new idea, resourcefulness, unconventionality, unorthodoxy |
| Antonyms: | orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | guessing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guesswork |
| Synonyms: | assuming, assumption, deduction, fancy, hunch, imagination, inference, opinion, predisposition, presuming, presumption, reckoning, speculation, supposition, surmise, guesswork, positing, postulating, theorizing |
| Main Entry: | figment of the imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fiction of the mind |
| Synonyms: | fabrication, fantasy, fiction, figment, imagination, invention, whimsy, creation of the brain, creature of the imagination, phantom of the mind, wildest dream |
| Main Entry: | flight of fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imaginative but unworkable idea |
| Synonyms: | creation of the brain, exaggeration, facon de parler, fish story, fumes of fancy, imagination, mind's eye, play of fancy, stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination |
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, creativity |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, artistry, craft, dexterity, expertise, facility, imagination, ingenuity, knack, know-how, knowledge, mastery, method, profession, trade, craftsmanship, inventiveness, virtuosity |
| Antonyms: | lack, unskill |
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
| Synonyms: | conception, constitution, establishment, formation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, making, origination, procreation, production, formulation, laying down, nascency, nativity, setting up, siring |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, vision |
| Synonyms: | bubble*, castle in the air*, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, head trip, idea, image, imagination, impression, incubus, nightmare, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith, mental picture |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impulse, urge |
| Synonyms: | caprice, conceit, conception, contrariness, creation, cup of tea*, desire, druthers, flash, fool's paradise, groove*, humor, idea, image, imagination, impression, inclination, irrationality, liking, mind, notion, perverseness, pleasure, thing*, thought, vagary, velleity, visualization, weakness for, whim, will |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, creativeness |
| Synonyms: | apparatus, black box*, coinage, concoction, contraption, contrivance, creativity, design, development, device, discovery, doodad*, gadget, genius, gimmick, gizmo*, imagination, ingenuity, innovation, inspiration, novelty, opus, original, originality, brainchild, inventiveness, resourcefulness |
| Antonyms: | steal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intelligence |
| Synonyms: | attention, brain*, capacity, cognizance, conception, consciousness, creativity, faculty, function, genius, head, imagination, ingenuity, instinct, intellect, intellectual, intuition, judgment, lucidity, mentality, observation, perception, power, psyche, reason, reasoning, regard, sanity, sense, soul, soundness, spirit, talent, thinker, thought, understanding, wisdom, apperception, brainpower, brains, intellectuality, marbles, percipience, ratiocination, wits |
| Antonyms: | body, corporeality, physicality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | notion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, idea |
| Synonyms: | angle, apprehension, approach, assumption, awareness, clue, comprehension, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness, consideration, cue, discernment, flash, hint, image, imagination, impression, inclination, indication, inkling, insight, intimation, intuition, judgment, knowledge, opinion, penetration, perception, sentiment, slant, spark, suggestion, telltale, thought, twist, understanding, view, wind, wrinkle, intellection |
| Main Entry: | reflection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought, thinking |
| Synonyms: | absorption, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, idea, imagination, impression, meditation, musing, observation, opinion, speculation, study, view, brainwork, cerebration, pensiveness, pondering, rumination |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking, dream |
| Synonyms: | chimera, conception, daydream, delusion, fabrication, fantasy, figment, fondness, hallucination, hankering, idea, illusion, imagination, inclination, invention, itch*, mirage, nightmare, notion, partiality, penchant, phantasm, picture, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, predilection, preference, relish, reverie, sweet tooth*, vision, yearning, yen, big eyes, envisagement, envisioning, eyes for, imaginativeness, romancing |
| Antonyms: | certainty, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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