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IMAGINATION

This housewife's ingenuity led to the creation of a number of great new household products.

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imagination
You’ve always had a very vivid imagination.
creativity
The aim of the award is to encourage creativity and innovation.
vision
He was a man of great vision.
inventiveness
His domestic designs display an unending inventiveness and account for his best work.
originality
approving
Her photographic portraits can hardly be accused of lacking originality.
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If you imagine something, you form or you have a mental picture or idea of it. Your imagination is your ability to invent or think of things. Someone who is imaginative is good at inventing or thinking of things. Something that only exists in thought and not in real life is called imaginary.
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