Imaging vs Imagination - What's the difference?
imaging | imagination |
The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.
The use of mental images to alter a person's perceptions or behaviors.
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 :
As nouns the difference between imaging and imagination
is that imaging is the technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts while 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.As a verb imaging
is present participle of lang=en.imaging
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (use of mental images) visualizationHyponyms
* (technique or practice of creating images of the invisible) magnetic resonance imaging, sonography, thermography, tomographyimagination
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.