imagination

Definition

Imagination is the ability of your mind to create pictures, ideas, or scenarios that are not present or real right now. It lets you invent stories, plan for the future, and think of things that have never existed.

Etymology

From Latin "imaginatio" meaning "image, picture, idea," from "imaginari" (to form an image of). It originally referred to the mind’s power to form mental pictures.

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