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Oneiric vs Imagination - What's the difference?

oneiric | imagination |

As an adjective oneiric

is of or pertaining to dreams.

As a noun imagination is

imagination (image-making power of the mind).

oneiric

English

Alternative forms

* oniric

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to dreams.
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  • Resembling a dream; dreamlike.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=Rather, novelist Louise de Vilmorin, whose popular novel Madame de had been recently filmed by Max Ophuls, joined Malle in reworking Denon's novella and updating it into a combination of a modern comedy of manners and a daring, even oneiric love story that played with and defied many conventions of the romance genre.
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    • Related terms

    * oneirism * oneirocritic * oneirologist * oneirology * oneiromancer * oneiromancy * oneironaut * oneirophobia

    imagination

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The image-making power of the mind; the act of creating or reproducing ideally an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
    • Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=5 citation , passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination .}}
  • Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
    • You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination .
  • Creativity; resourcefulness.
    • His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
  • A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion; an imagining; something imagined.
  • * 1597 , Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", Essays :
    • And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

    Synonyms

    * (the representative power) creativity, fancy, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness

    External links

    * (wikipedia "imagination") ----