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.

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, 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.

Noun

(revelries)

Joyful merry-making.

* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]

The women pale and staring under the sun. In plain skirts, drab shoes. In hair scarves. Their drunken revelry jars.