Imagination vs. Creativity

Imaginationnoun

The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.

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Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.

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Creativity; resourcefulness.

Imaginationnoun

A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.

Imaginationnoun

The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.

Imaginationnoun

The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.

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The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.

Imaginationnoun

A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.

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the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses;

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the ability to form mental images of things or events;

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the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems;

Imaginationnoun

the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses

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the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful

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the part of the mind that imagines things

Imagination

Imagination is the ability to produce and simulate novel objects, sensations, and ideas in the mind without any immediate input of the senses. It is also described as the forming of experiences in one's mind, which can be re-creations of past experiences such as vivid memories with imagined changes, or they can be completely invented and possibly fantastic scenes.

Creativitynoun

The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product that is useful to society.

Creativitynoun

the ability to create

Creativitynoun

the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness

Creativity

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something somehow new and somehow valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a printed literary work, or a painting).