imagination#2 (n)
imaging (n)
imagery (n)
mental imagery (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 09
def the ability to form mental images of things or events
examples he could still hear her in his imagination
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Hypernym representational process
Derivationally related form imagery → image
Derivationally related form imaging → image
Derivationally related form imagination → imagine
Hyponym mind's eye; vision; picturing, envisioning; dream, dreaming; chimera, chimaera; evocation; pretense, pretence, make-believe
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Hyponym representational process
Hypernym mind's eye; vision; picturing, envisioning; dream, dreaming; chimera, chimaera; evocation; pretense, pretence, make-believe
Derivationally related form image → imaging
Derivationally related form image → imagery
Derivationally related form imagine → imagination

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