Pigment vs Imagination - What's the difference?
pigment | imagination |
(biology) Any color in plant or animal cells
A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder
(obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
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.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, 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 pigment and imagination
is that pigment is any color in plant or animal cells while imagination is 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.As a verb pigment
is to add color or pigment to something.pigment
English
(wikipedia pigment)Noun
(en noun)- Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
- Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
Derived terms
* pigmentaryDerived terms
* pigmentationAnagrams
* ----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.
