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Imagining vs Devising - What's the difference?

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Imagining is a related term of devising.


As nouns the difference between imagining and devising

is that imagining is something imagined while devising is the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will.

As verbs the difference between imagining and devising

is that imagining is while devising is .

imagining

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something imagined.
  • * 1977 , Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard'' in ''Izitso , Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens,
    • Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love...
  • * 2006 , Jessica Page Morrell, Between the Lines , Writer's Digest Books, page 15,
    • Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings .

    Verb

    (head)

    • devising

    English

    Noun

  • the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will
  • *
    • I take some kind of comfort in the inexhaustibility of the devisings of nature, that it can keep coming up with new things.

    Synonyms

    * fashioning, making

    Verb

    (head)