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Imaginative vs Imagery - What's the difference?

imaginative | imagery |

As an adjective imaginative

is having a lively or creative imagination.

As a noun imagery is

the work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.

imaginative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having a lively or creative imagination
  • tending to be fanciful or inventive
  • false or imagined

    • imagery

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia imagery) (imageries)
  • The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
  • Imitation work.
  • Images in general, or en masse.
  • (figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
  • The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
  • Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.