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as in creativity
the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others
a cartoonist needs a fertile imagination in order to create interesting cartoons on demand
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as in creativeness
the skill and imagination to create new things
she lacks the imagination to be anything but an imitator of other directors' cinematic styles
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Pallas in Pisces has the ability to create amazingness through their imagination and give others the courage to do the same.
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Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
Michael Keaton’s title trickster demon possessed our pop-culture hearts 36 years ago, blasting director Tim Burton’s utterly gonzo imagination all over the big screen in a genre-annihilating horror comedy no one had ever seen before.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2024
Its power, instead, comes from the dissonance between the terrifying condition of waiting for answers and the flights of imagination that this purgatory, paradoxically, sustains.
—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024
In the high school of the American imagination, Regina George (Rachel McAdams) will always rule the hallways.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2024
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Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
Michael Keaton’s title trickster demon possessed our pop-culture hearts 36 years ago, blasting director Tim Burton’s utterly gonzo imagination all over the big screen in a genre-annihilating horror comedy no one had ever seen before.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2024
Its power, instead, comes from the dissonance between the terrifying condition of waiting for answers and the flights of imagination that this purgatory, paradoxically, sustains.
—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024
In the high school of the American imagination, Regina George (Rachel McAdams) will always rule the hallways.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2024
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“Imagination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imagination. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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