Significado de imagination em inglês

imagination

noun

/ɪˌmædʒ.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ us

/ɪˌmædʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/

B1 [ C or U ]

the ability to form pictures in the mind:

My younger son has a very vivid (= active) imagination.

I can never make up stories - I have absolutely no imagination.

For some reason the story captured/caught the imagination of the public (= made them very interested).

It couldn't by any stretch of the imagination be described as a (= it is certainly not a) beautiful city.

There's a sex scene in the film which apparently leaves nothing to the imagination (= shows sexual parts of the body very clearly).

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[ U ]

something that you think exists or is true, although in fact it is not real or true:

Was she paying him a lot of attention or was it just my imagination?

Is it my imagination or is David behaving strangely at the moment?

B1 [ U ]

the ability to think of new ideas:

It's a job that needs someone with a bit of imagination.

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Was it just my imagination or did I hear John's voice in the other room?
He's one of those people with a very vivid imagination - every time he hears a noise he's convinced it's someone breaking in.
The American drive to land a man on the Moon captured the imagination of the whole world.
Her imagination was kindled by the exciting stories her grandmother told her.
One of poetry's functions is to somehow unlock the imagination.

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imagination | Dicionário Americano

imagination

noun [ U ]

/ɪˌmædʒ·əˈneɪ·ʃən/

the ability to form mental pictures of people or things, or to have new ideas:

Rafael has a very active imagination (= has many ideas).

(Definição de imagination do Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Exemplos de imagination

imagination

His research focuses on the architectural imagination in technical drawing.

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The abstraction by our imagination means we earn the approbation (or disapprobation) from those unlike as well as those like us.

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Music offers the opportunity for every child to move on from where they are, in skills, understanding and imagination.

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But first, let us consider some evidence of his visual imagination.

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In 2004, as in 1968, perhaps the best antidote to timidity is the ungovernable wildness of the imagination.

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Rather, the focus of inquiry should be on the imagination since both theoretical reason and practical reason make use of imagination in their own way.

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The crime attracted interest and scandal and by the second half of the eighteenth century had established a strong hold over the public imagination.

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Now, not only was the dramatic content of the written play probing the listener's intellect, but strange new sounds were stretching the imagination.

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These artisans would be more prone to think up foolish schemes created by an imagination uncontrolled by reason and experience.

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Her imagination was sleeping, or she had no artistic imagination at all.

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This is reminiscent of the extraordinary relationship which amputees develop with their artificial replacements, revealing a whole inner mysterious world of feeling and imagination.

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Travelling in space to ' exotic ' realms evidently encourages the imagination to travel in time.

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What makes this episode resonate as a vernacular form of archaeological thinking buried deep in the literary imagination of the mid-19th century?

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Here that is left to the imagination of the reader and a more quantitative method is used to demonstrate the existence of the pulses.

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It also shows that even radical writers were often unable to dispel the monarchy from their imaginations.

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active imagination

The object of his methods was to enhance a natural process of individuation emergent through techniques of active imagination (a sort of controlled daydream).

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fertile imagination

He has a fertile imagination.

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historical imagination

This was not simply a failure of historical imagination, nor was it a product of intellectual carelessness or political myopia.

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想像力, 幻覺, 幻想…

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