IMAGINATION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for IMAGINATION?

Need another word that means the same as “imagination”? Find 15 synonyms and 30 related words for “imagination” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Imagination” are: imagery, imaging, imaginativeness, vision, resource, resourcefulness, fancy, interest, fascination, attention, passion, curiosity, preoccupation, creativity, creativeness

Imagination as a Noun

Definitions of "Imagination" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “imagination” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.
• The ability to form mental images of things or events.
• The part of the mind that imagines things.
• The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.
• The ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful.
• The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems.

Synonyms of "Imagination" as a noun (15 Words)

attention	The process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others. He turned his attention to the educational system.
creativeness	The ability to create.
creativity	The use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness. Firms are keen to encourage creativity.
curiosity	An unusual or interesting object or fact. Filled with curiosity she peered through the window.
fancy	The faculty of imagination. People jostled to ride alongside their fancy.
fascination	The power to fascinate someone; the quality of being fascinating. Television has always held a fascination for me.
imagery	Visual symbolism. The film s religious imagery.
imaginativeness	The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.
imaging	The process of making a visual representation of something by scanning it with a detector or electromagnetic beam. Medical imaging.
interest	The selfish pursuit of one s own welfare self interest. Food interests in Scotland must continue to invest.
passion	The suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion. Modern furniture is a particular passion of Bill s.
preoccupation	A subject or matter that engrosses someone. Their main preoccupation was how to feed their families.
resource	The ability to find clever ways to overcome difficulties resourcefulness. Japan s exploitation of commercially important marine resources.
resourcefulness	The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems. His films show remarkable technical resourcefulness.
vision	The images seen on a television screen. The organization had lost its vision and direction.

Usage Examples of "Imagination" as a noun

• Popular imagination created a world of demons.
• Imagination reveals what the world could be.
• He could still hear her in his imagination.
• Her story captured the public's imagination.
• She'd never been blessed with a vivid imagination.
• She was set in her ways and lacked imagination.
• A girl who existed only in my imagination.

Associations of "Imagination" (30 Words)

conceive	Become affected by (a feeling. The racist conceives such people to be inferior.
conception	Ability to imagine; understanding. He had no conception of politics.
creative	A person whose job involves creative work. Creative work.
creativeness	The ability to create.
creativity	The ability to create. Firms are keen to encourage creativity.
delusion	The action of deluding or the state of being deluded. What a capacity television has for delusion.
dissemble	Make believe with the intent to deceive. An honest sincere person with no need to dissemble.
fancied	Formed or conceived by the imagination. A fancied wrong.
fanciful	Over-imaginative and unrealistic. A fanciful mind.
fancy	Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for. I ve a fancy they want to be alone.
fantasy	Denoting a competition or league in which participants select imaginary teams from among the players in a real sports league and score points according to the actual performance of their players. A schoolgirl fantasy.
feign	Make believe with the intent to deceive. He feigned that he was ill.
fiction	A deliberately false or improbable account. The notion of the country being a democracy is a polite fiction.
fictitious	Occurring in or invented for fiction. A fictitious address.
figment	A contrived or fantastic idea. A figment of the imagination.
hallucination	An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present. His dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination.
hallucinatory	Characterized by or characteristic of hallucination. A hallucinatory fantasy.
idea	A thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action. He has an idea that we don t like him.
imaginary	Not based on fact; unreal- F.D.Roosevelt. Chris had imaginary conversations with her.
ingenuity	The quality of being clever, original, and inventive. A plot of great ingenuity.
innovation	A new method, idea, product, etc. Innovation is crucial to the continuing success of any organization.
invention	A creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation. Medieval inventions included spectacles for reading and the spinning wheel.
inventive	Having the ability to create or design new things or to think originally. Had an inventive turn of mind.
novelty	A small inexpensive mass-produced article. In 1914 air travel was still a novelty.
originality	The ability to think independently and creatively. He congratulated her on the originality of her costume.
paranoid	A person who is paranoid. Further accusations would sound like the ramblings of a paranoid.
psychosis	A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. The symptoms of psychosis.
sham	Adopted in order to deceive. Sham modesty.
simulate	Create a representation or model of. Red ochre intended to simulate blood.
surreal	Having the qualities of surrealism bizarre. A surreal mix of fact and fantasy.