Imagination vs Contrivance - What's the difference?
imagination | contrivance | Synonyms |
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.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
Creativity; resourcefulness.
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 :
a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
* 2005 , .
something overly artful or artificial
As nouns the difference between imagination and contrivance
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 contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.imagination
English
Noun
(en noun)- Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
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- You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination .
- His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
- 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, inventivenessExternal links
* (wikipedia "imagination") ----contrivance
English
Noun
(en noun)- And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .
