Prediction vs Imagination - What's the difference?
prediction | imagination |
A statement of what will happen in the future.
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 prediction and imagination
is that prediction is prediction (act of predicting) while imagination is imagination (image-making power of the mind).prediction
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(wikipedia prediction)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." (in translation from Danish)
Synonyms
* (statement about the future) forecast, halseny, prognosis, prognosticationimagination
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.