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Imagination vs Imaginitis - What's the difference?

imagination | imaginitis |

As nouns the difference between imagination and imaginitis

is that imagination is imagination (image-making power of the mind) while imaginitis is (humorous) a notional disease characterised by a hyperactive imagination.

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") ----

    imaginitis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (humorous) A notional disease characterised by a hyperactive imagination.
  • * 1937 , Michael Terry, Sand and Sun
    • Other dislodged stones, however, convinced us the boys had not suffered from imaginitis
  • * 1961 , Margaret Elizabeth Mulac, Leisure: Time for Living and Retirement
    • "Just a case of galloping imaginitis ! Would you suggest with this nonsense that we go back to peeling potatoes and cooking them over a coal stove?"
  • * 2004 , Jerome Kiely, Heat Not a Furnace (page 40)
    • [T]wo of them look as healthy as mountain sheep, so they are suffering only from imaginitis but the third has trouble lowering herself down the steps so either she has very bad phlebitis or her womb is fallen.