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Imagine vs Imagining - What's the difference?

imagine | imagining |

As verbs the difference between imagine and imagining

is that imagine is to form a mental of something; to envision or create something in one's mind while imagining is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun imagining is

something imagined.

imagine

English

Verb

  • To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
  • * Shakespeare
    • In the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined . Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
  • 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
    • How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * imaginable * imaginal * imaginary * imagination * imaginative

    Related terms

    * image * imagery * imago

    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

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