Imagination vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?
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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.
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, 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 :
The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
*, II.17:
As nouns the difference between imagination and ingenuity
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 ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.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") ----ingenuity
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
- Poverty is the mother of ingenuity .
- Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
- And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie , and ever to speake truth and what I think.