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Dreaming vs Imagining - What's the difference?

dreaming | imagining |

As a proper noun dreaming

is (australian aboriginal mythology) the time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence.

As a noun imagining is

something imagined.

As a verb imagining is

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dreaming

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of dreaming; a dream or reverie.

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    imagining

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something imagined.
  • * 1977 , Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard'' in ''Izitso , Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens,
    • Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love...
  • * 2006 , Jessica Page Morrell, Between the Lines , Writer's Digest Books, page 15,
    • Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings .

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