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Imaginary vs Opinicus - What's the difference?

imaginary | opinicus |

As nouns the difference between imaginary and opinicus

is that imaginary is imagination; fancy while opinicus is an imaginary heraldic creature with an eagle's head, a short tail, and sometimes wings.

As an adjective imaginary

is existing only in the imagination.

imaginary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • existing only in the imagination
  • * Addison
  • Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
  • (mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
  • Derived terms

    * imaginarily * imaginariness

    Noun

    (imaginaries)
  • Imagination; fancy.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
  • 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.
  • (mathematics) An imaginary quantity.
  • opinicus

    English

    Noun

  • (heraldry) An imaginary heraldic creature with an eagle's head, a short tail, and sometimes wings.
  • (Webster 1913)