Phantasy vs Imagination - What's the difference?
phantasy | imagination |
* H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth :
(psychology) The innate mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.
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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.
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, chapter=5 Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
Creativity; resourcefulness.
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 :
As nouns the difference between phantasy and imagination
is that phantasy is while imagination is imagination (image-making power of the mind).phantasy
English
Noun
(phantasies)- … what man has hitherto known only in febrile phantasy and tenuous legend?
Usage notes
In psychological writing, the spelling phantasy'' is often used to differentiate the Kleinian concept, which represents an innate unconscious process, from the related Freudian concept ''fantasy'', with is conscious and deliberate.''Internal Objects Revisited by Joseph Sandler, Anne-Marie Sandler, page xiiReferences
imagination
English
Noun
(en noun)- Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
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- You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination .
- His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
- 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.