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Imaginary vs Tulpa - What's the difference?

imaginary | tulpa |

As nouns the difference between imaginary and tulpa

is that imaginary is imagination; fancy while tulpa is a magical creature that attains corporeal reality, having been originally merely imaginary.

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.

    • External links

    * (Imaginary number)

    tulpa

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A magical creature that attains corporeal reality, having been originally merely imaginary.
  • *1966 , Nikos Kazantzakis, England: A Travel Journal , page 110
  • *:When the year was up, the tulpa began growing. It lost its fear of its master and began taking on new forms of its own. It ceased to run errands ....
  • A modern type of imaginary friend inspired by traditional tulpa.