Theoretic vs Imaginary - What's the difference?
theoretic | imaginary | Related terms |
Concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters.
Existing only in theory, not proven in reality.
existing only in the imagination
* Addison
(mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
Imagination; fancy.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
(mathematics) An imaginary quantity.
As adjectives the difference between theoretic and imaginary
is that theoretic is concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters while imaginary is existing only in the imagination.As a noun imaginary is
imagination; fancy.theoretic
English
Alternative forms
* theoretick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Anagrams
* *imaginary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
Derived terms
* imaginarily * imaginarinessNoun
(imaginaries)- By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
