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Imaging vs Imagining - What's the difference?

imaging | imagining |

As nouns the difference between imagining and imaging

is that imagining is something imagined while imaging is the technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.

As verbs the difference between imagining and imaging

is that imagining is present participle of lang=en while imaging is present participle of lang=en.

imaging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.
  • The use of mental images to alter a person's perceptions or behaviors.

    • Synonyms

    * (use of mental images) visualization

    Hyponyms

    * (technique or practice of creating images of the invisible) magnetic resonance imaging, sonography, thermography, tomography

    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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