Imaginary vs Apparitional - What's the difference?
imaginary | apparitional | Related terms |
existing only in the imagination
* Addison
(mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
Imagination; fancy.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
(mathematics) An imaginary quantity.
Of or pertaining to an apparition or apparitions; ghostly; immaterial; spectral.
* 1908 , , "The Jolly Corner," ch. 2,
Imaginary is a related term of apparitional.
As adjectives the difference between imaginary and apparitional
is that imaginary is existing only in the imagination while apparitional is of or pertaining to an apparition or apparitions; ghostly; immaterial; spectral.As a noun imaginary
is imagination; fancy.imaginary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
Derived terms
* imaginarily * imaginarinessNoun
(imaginaries)- By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
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* (Imaginary number)apparitional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- People enough, first and last, had been in terror of apparitions, but who had ever before so turned the tables and become himself, in the apparitional world, an incalculable terror?