Imagination vs Mystical - What's the difference?
imagination | mystical |
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 :
Relating to mystics or mysticism.
Having a spiritual significance that transcends human understanding.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Stephen Ledoux
, title=Behaviorism at 100
, volume=100, issue=1, page=60
, magazine=
Inspiring a sense of spiritual mystery, awe, and fascination.
As a noun 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 an adjective mystical is
relating to mystics or mysticism.imagination
English
Noun
(en noun)- Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
citation, passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination .}}
- 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") ----mystical
English
Alternative forms
* mysticall (obsolete) * mystickal (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}