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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";
   - imaginativeness, vision
    
2. The ability to form mental images of things or events
   "he could still hear her in his imagination";
   - imaging, imagery, mental imagery
    
3. The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
   "a man of imagination";
   - resource, resourcefulness

Derived forms: imaginations

Type of: cleverness, creative thinking, creativeness, creativity, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness, representational process

Encyclopedia: Imagination