IMAGINATIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imaginativeness mean? 

• IMAGINATIVENESS (noun)
  The noun IMAGINATIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

  Familiarity information: IMAGINATIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMAGINATIVENESS (noun)

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Meaning:

The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

imagination; imaginativeness; vision

Context example:

imagination reveals what the world could be

Hypernyms ("imaginativeness" is a kind of...):

creative thinking; creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imaginativeness"):

fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)

fancy (imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination)

fantasy; phantasy (imagination unrestricted by reality)

dream; dreaming (imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake)

imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

Derivation:

imaginative ((used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action)