Conceptual vs Imaginary - What's the difference?
conceptual | imaginary | Related terms |
Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination
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Of, or relating to conceptualism
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.
Conceptual is a related term of imaginary.
As adjectives the difference between conceptual and imaginary
is that conceptual is of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination while imaginary is existing only in the imagination.As a noun imaginary is
imagination; fancy.conceptual
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We defined a conceptual model before designing the real thing.
- The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
Derived terms
* aconceptual * conceptually * conceptual model * conceptual art * conceptual graph * conceptual network * preconceptualDescendants
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* *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.