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Imagination vs Conjecture - What's the difference?

imagination | conjecture |

As nouns the difference between imagination and conjecture

is that imagination is the image-making power of the mind; the act of creating or reproducing ideally an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images while conjecture is a statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

As a verb conjecture is

to guess; to venture an unproven idea.

imagination

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The image-making power of the mind; the act of creating or reproducing ideally an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
    • Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=5 citation , passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination .}}
  • Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
    • You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination .
  • Creativity; resourcefulness.
    • His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
  • A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion; an imagining; something imagined.
  • * 1597 , Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", Essays :
    • And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

    Synonyms

    * (the representative power) creativity, fancy, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness

    External links

    * (wikipedia "imagination") ----

    conjecture

    English

    Noun

  • (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a .
    • I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
  • (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
    • The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
  • (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally (l).
  • (obsolete) of signs and omens.

    • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Related terms

    * conject * conjectural

    Verb

    (conjectur)
  • (formal) To ; to venture an unproven idea.
    • I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
  • * South
    • Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.

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