Superstition vs Imagination - What's the difference?
superstition | imagination |
A belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way.
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 superstition and imagination
is that superstition is a belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way 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.superstition
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(wikipedia superstition)Noun
(en noun)imagination
English
Noun
(en noun)- Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
citation, passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination .}}
- 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.
