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imagination
1. The ability to form images and ideas in the mind, especially of things never seen or experienced directly.
2. A creative part of mind; the part of the mind where ideas, thoughts, and images are formed.
3. The faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
4. The action or process of forming images or concepts.
5. The faculty of producing ideal creations consistent with reality, as in literature, as distinct from the power of creating illustrative or decorative imagery.
6. The product of imagining; a conception or mental creation, often a baseless or fanciful one.
7. An ability to face and resolve difficulties; resourcefulness.
8. In psychology, the power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images (reproductive imagination) or of recombining former experiences in the creation of new images directed at a specific goal or aiding in the solution of problems (creative imagination).
9. Archaic, a plan, scheme, or plot.
2. A creative part of mind; the part of the mind where ideas, thoughts, and images are formed.
3. The faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
4. The action or process of forming images or concepts.
5. The faculty of producing ideal creations consistent with reality, as in literature, as distinct from the power of creating illustrative or decorative imagery.
6. The product of imagining; a conception or mental creation, often a baseless or fanciful one.
8. In psychology, the power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images (reproductive imagination) or of recombining former experiences in the creation of new images directed at a specific goal or aiding in the solution of problems (creative imagination).
9. Archaic, a plan, scheme, or plot.
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(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
(aspects of the imagination that are usually seen when the eyes are closed or images of mental thoughts)