Imagine vs Ideate - What's the difference?
imagine | ideate |
To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
* Shakespeare
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, title= To believe in something created by one's own mind.
To assume.
To conjecture or guess.
To use one's imagination.
(obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
* Bible, Psalms lxii. 3
To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
To generate an idea.
(metaphysics) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.
As verbs the difference between imagine and ideate
is that imagine is to form a mental of something; to envision or create something in one's mind while ideate is to apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.As a noun ideate is
the actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.imagine
English
Verb
- In the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
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- How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?