Evoke vs Imagine - What's the difference?
evoke | imagine |
To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
* Shakespeare
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, title= To believe in something created by one's own mind.
To assume.
To conjecture or guess.
To use one's imagination.
(obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
* Bible, Psalms lxii. 3
As verbs the difference between evoke and imagine
is that evoke is to cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc) in someone's mind or imagination while imagine is .evoke
English
Verb
- Being here evokes long forgotten memories.
- Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.
- The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century.
Derived terms
* *imagine
English
Verb
- In the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined . Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?