Imagination vs. Invention

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.

Imaginationnoun

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.

Imaginationnoun

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.

Imaginationnoun

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

Imaginationnoun

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

Imaginationnoun

the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful

Imaginationnoun

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.

Inventionnoun

Something invented.

Inventionnoun

The act of inventing.

Inventionnoun

The capacity to invent.

Inventionnoun

(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.

Inventionnoun

(archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

Inventionnoun

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.

Inventionnoun

That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention; she patented five inventions.

Inventionnoun

Thought; idea.

Inventionnoun

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.

Inventionnoun

The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.

Inventionnoun

The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.

Inventionnoun

the creation of something in the mind

Inventionnoun

a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

Inventionnoun

the act of inventing

Inventionnoun

the action of inventing something, typically a process or device

Inventionnoun

something, typically a process or device, that has been invented

Inventionnoun

creative ability

Inventionnoun

something fabricated or made up

Inventionnoun

used as a title for a short piece of music

Invention

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process.