Inspiration vs. Imagination
Inspirationnoun
The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of respiration.
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(countable) A breath, a single inhalation.
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A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
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The act of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
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A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
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A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.
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The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; - the opposite of expiration.
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The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
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A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
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arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
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a product of your creative thinking and work;
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a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
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(theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings;
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arousing to a particular emotion or action
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the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
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.
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A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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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.
