imagi'national
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imagination (ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the faculty or action of producing ideas, esp mental images of what is not present or has not been experienced |
| 2. | mental creative ability |
| 3. | the ability to deal resourcefully with unexpected or unusual problems, circumstances, etc |
| 4. | Compare fancy (in romantic literary criticism, esp that of S. T. Coleridge) a creative act of perception that joins passive and active elements in thinking and imposes unity on the poetic material |
| imagi'national | |
| —adj | |
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