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Imagination vs Dreaming - What's the difference?

imagination | dreaming |

As a noun imagination

is imagination (image-making power of the mind).

As a proper noun dreaming is

(australian aboriginal mythology) the time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence.

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") ----

    dreaming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of dreaming; a dream or reverie.

    • Anagrams

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