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Definitions: Imagination |
ImaginationNoun1. The power of imagination; "popular imagination created a world of demons". 2. The ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination". 3. The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "imagination" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Imagination \Im*ag`i*na"tion\, noun. [from Old English expression imaginacionum, French imagination, from the Latin expression imaginatio. See Imagine.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Health | A new pattern of perceptual or ideational material derived from past experience. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The common use of the term is for the process of forming in the mind new images which have not been previously experienced, or at least only partially or in different combinations. Thus the image of a centaur is the result of combining the common percepts of man and horse; fairy tales and fiction generally are the result of this process of combination. Imagination in this sense, not being limited to the acquisition of exact knowledge by the requirements of practical necessity, is up to a certain point free from objective restraints. In various spheres, however, even imagination is in practice limited: thus a man whose imaginations do violence to the elementary laws of thought, or to the necessary principles of practical possibility, or to the reasonable probabilities of a given case is regarded as insane.
The same limitations beset imagination in the field of scientific hypothesis. Progress in scientific research is due largely to provisional explanations which are constructed by imagination, but such hypotheses must be framed in relation to previously ascertained facts and in accordance with the principles of the particular science.
In spite, however, of these broad practical considerations, imagination differs fundamentally from belief in that the latter involves "objective" control of subjective activity. The play of imagination, apart from the obvious limitations (e.g. of avoiding explicit self-contradiction), is conditioned only by the general trend of the mind at a given moment. Belief, on the other hand, is immediately related to practical activity: it is perfectly possible to imagine myself a millionaire, but unless I believe it I do not, therefore, act as such. Belief always endeavours to conform to objective conditions; though it is from one point of view subjective it is also objectively conditioned, whereas imagination as such is specifically free. The dividing line between imagination and belief varies widely in different stages of mental development. Thus someone from a technologically primitive culture who is ill frames an ideal reconstruction of the causes of his illness, and attributes it to the hostile magic of an enemy. In ignorance of pathology he is satisfied with this explanation, and actually believes in it, whereas such a hypothesis in the mind of someone who understood germ theory it would be treated as a pure effort of imagination, or even as a hallucination. It follows that the distinction between imagination and belief depends in practice on knowledge, social environment, training and the like.
Although, however, the absence of objective restraint, i.e. a certain unreality, is characteristic of imagination, none the less it has great practical importance as a purely ideational activity. Its very freedom from objective limitation makes it a source of pleasure and pain. A person of vivid imagination suffers acutely from the imagination of perils besetting a friend. In fact in some cases the ideal construction is so "real" that specific physical manifestations occur, as though imagination had passed into belief or the events imagined were actually in progress. See, for example, psychosomatic illness.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Imagination."
Synonyms: ImaginationSynonyms: imagery (n), imaginativeness (n), imaging (n), mental imagery (n), resource (n), resourcefulness (n), vision (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exaggeration | Figure of speech, facon de parler; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination; flight of fancy; (imagination). |
Imagination | Warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy. |
Noun: imagination; originality; invention; fancy; inspiration; verve. | |
Illusion; (error); phantom; (fallacy of vision); Fata Morgana; (ignis fatuus); vapor; (cloud); stretch of the imagination; (exaggeration); mythogenesis. | |
Give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy; indulge in reverie. | |
Wonder | Be wonderful; Adjective: beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief. |
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Screenplays | All you do, is let your imagination connect them together. (The Mighty; writing credit: Charles Leavitt. Based on the novel 'Freak the Mighty' by Rodman Philbrick.) If they ever try to trace any of those accounts, they're gonna end up chasing a figment of my imagination. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) You have a good imagination, you must be in advertisement! (Amores perros; writing credit: Guillermo Arriaga) This is no fantasy - no careless product of wild imagination. (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) We've made living biological attractions so astounding that they'll capture the imagination of the entire planet. (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton) | |
Lyrics | Supposed to fire my imagination ("Satisfaction"; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) | |
Clever | You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus. (references; author: Mark Twain) Imagination is intelligence having fun. (references; author: unknown) Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mystery and Imagination (1966) Imagination (1943) Use Your Imagination (1933) The Newlyweds' Imagination (1927) Imagination (2002) | |
Song Titles | I've Got to Use My Imagination (performing artist: Gladys Knight & The Pips) Just My Imagination (performing artist: The Temptations) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alphonse de Lamartine | Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. |
Fay Wray | Only in your imagination can you revise. |
Frank Lloyd Wright | An idea is salvation by imagination. |
Geoffrey Chaucer | People can die of mere imagination. |
John Keats | My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. |
Joseph Joubert | Imagination is the eye of the soul. |
Muhammad Ali | The man who has no imagination has no wings. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Imagination rules the world. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Science does not know its debt to imagination. |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | The fear of them alone might easily have been used to enforce totalitarian systems upon the free democratic world, with consequences appalling to human imagination. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | My imagination was a tarnished mirror. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The amount of civilisation is measured by the amount of imagination. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His nurse had taught him Irish and shaped his rude imagination by the broken lights of Irish myth. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The Blefuscudians, who had not the least imagination of what I intended, were at first confounded with astonishment. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It may be vain to ask why the imagination will not be reconciled to flesh and fat. |
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Health | Imagination and sustained effort are at the heart of the many educational efforts. (references) | |
Business | In addition, images of cowboys and Indians, and open spaces, stimulated by TV and movies, remain vivid in the French imagination, which explains why Western states are also popular in France. (references) | |
Economic History | Chad | They often find the imagination and technology of U.S. marketing approaches refreshing and inspirational. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Since Christmas your Government has labored again, with imagination and endurance, to remove any barrier to peaceful settlement. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Fifty years ago, in this room and at this very desk, President Woodrow Wilson spoke words which caught the imagination of a war-weary world. |
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| "Imagination" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Imagination" is used about 2,650 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2,650 | 3,457 |
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| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Imagination Technologies Group Plc |
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Expressions using "imagination": ardent imagination ♦ boiling imagination ♦ bold imagination ♦ by every stretch of the imagination ♦ Color imagination ♦ compose out of one's own imagination ♦ daring imagination ♦ draw on one's imagination ♦ excited imagination ♦ fertile imagination ♦ fiery imagination ♦ figment of the imagination ♦ give rein to one's imagination ♦ give reins to one's imagination ♦ heated imagination ♦ imagination boggles at the thought ♦ imagination image ♦ invention imagination ♦ lively imagination ♦ playful imagination ♦ sanguine imagination ♦ stimulating to the imagination ♦ stretch of the imagination ♦ vagrant imagination ♦ vivid imagination ♦ warm imagination ♦ wild imagination. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "imagination": imagination-an, imagination-but, imagination-content, imagination-free. | |
Ending with "imagination": over-imagination. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
imagination | 1,029 |
destination imagination | 77 |
carnival imagination | 57 |
imagination station | 53 |
the sociological imagination | 45 |
creative imagination | 39 |
just my imagination | 33 |
imagination theater | 30 |
imagination just lyrics | 29 |
imagination space station | 25 |
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| Language | Translations for "imagination"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | verbeelding. (various references) | |
Albanian | imagjinatë (fancy, fantasy, make believe, phantasy). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملكة الخيال, معتقد تقليدي (orthodoxy), وهم (bubble, delusion, fancy, idol, illusion, illusory, phantom, prestige, purport, vagary, vapor, vapour), تصور (be photographed, conceive, conception, envisage, fantasy, ideation, imagine, phantasy, picture, project, see, suppose, vision, visualization, visualize), خيال (conceit, fantasy, fiction, ghost, illusion, phantasy, shade, shadow, shape, silhouette, spectrum, spook, wraith), التوهم (phantasm), ثمرة من ثمرات الخيال (fantasy, phantasy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фантазия (daydream, dream, fairy tale, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, invention, phantasy), въображение (fancy, fantasy, invention, vision). (various references) | |
Chinese | 想像力 (conception). (various references) | |
Czech | představivost (fantasy), obrazotvornost, fantazie (fancy, fantasy, phantasy, pipe dream, vision). (various references) | |
Dutch | verbeelding (arrogance, assumingness, fiction, overbearingness, presumption), inbeelding (chimaera, chimera, imagery). (various references) | |
Esperanto | imago. (various references) | |
Faeroese | hugmynd (idea). (various references) | |
Finnish | mielikuvitus (fancy, fantasy), luulottelu (fancy), kuvittelu. (various references) | |
French | imagination, fantaisie. (various references) | |
German | vorstellung (association, conceivability, concept, conception, house, idea, illusion, image, interview, introduction, notion, offering, perception, performance, picture, play, presentation, show, showing, vision), einbildung (chestiness, conceit, illusion, presumption, vanity). (various references) | |
Greek | φαντασία (conceit, fancy, fantasy, fiction, phantasy). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | imagjinatë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "מיון (correspondence, fancy, fantasy, like, likeness, resemblance, semblance, similarity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | képzelet (dirty mind, fancy, fantasy, phantasy), fantázia (brains, fantasia, fantasy, phantasy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | khayalan (delusion, illusion), fantasi (fancy, fantasy, grotesque, illusion), bayangan (estimation, reflection, shadow), bayang (image, shadow), aci-acian (suppossition). (various references) | |
Italian | immagine (clones, exposure, figure, frame, illustration, image, imago, picture, reflex, representation, visualisation, visualization), immaginazione (chestiness, fancy, fantasy, phantasy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 空想力 , 想像力 , 想像 (guess), 想い (affection, desire, emotion, expectation, experience, feelings, heart, hope, love, mind, sentiment, thought, wish), 思い做しか , 思い (affection, desire, emotion, expectation, experience, feelings, heart, hope, love, mind, sentiment, thought, wish), 仮想 (potential, supposition), イノシン酸 (changing one's image, creating a better image, efreet, emergency, Eve, evening, evening dress, event, ichthammol, Ichthyol, image change, image character, image maker, image research, image survey, imagineering, imitation, immediate, immigration, innocence, innocent, innovation, inosinic acid, one's image, ruining one's image, Yves Saint-Laurent). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おもいなしか, おもい (affection, desire, emotion, expectation, experience, feelings, heart, heavy, hope, important, love, massive, mind, oppressed, sentiment, serious, severe, thought, wish), そうぞうりょく (creative power), そうぞう (creation, guess), くうそうりょく, かそう (appearance, construction of a house, converted, cremation, disguise, fancy dress, lower strata, masquerade, phenomenon, potential, supposition, temporary burial), イマジネーション . (various references) | |
Korean | 상상 (Envisaging, imaginative, Imagining). (various references) | |
Malay | khayal. (various references) | |
Manx | smooinaghtyn (bethink, cogitate, cogitation, far-away, reflect, reflecting, think, thinking, thought), sheiltnys. (various references) | |
Norwegian | innbilning (fancy), fantasi (fancy). (various references) | |
Papiamen | imáhen, imágen. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imaginationay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imaginação (conceit, fancy, fantasy, figurant, idea, phantasy, vision). (various references) | |
Romanian | imaginaţie (fancy, fiction, make believe, phantasy), idee (conceit, hint, idea, image, mind, notion, plan, project, scheme, shade, stroke, thought, view), minte (brain, intellect, judgment, mind, nous, pate, reason, savvy, sense, spirit, thinking, wisdom, wit, wits), gând (anticipation, anxiety, brains, conceit, conviction, idea, intent, recollection, scheme, thinking, thought, wish), fantezie (day dream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, freak, make believe, phantasy, reverie), concepţie (apprehension, conception, idea, ideology, image, mind, notion, outlook, principle, realization, school, thinking, view), închipuire (chimera, fancy, idea, image, imagining, make believe, thought). (various references) | |
Russian | воображение (fancy, fantasy, make believe, phantasy). (various references) | |
Scottish | mac-meanmna (the imagination). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | imaginacija, uobraženje, mašta (fancy, phantasy). (various references) | |
Spanish | imaginación (construction, fancy, fantasy, make believe, phantasy). (various references) | |
Swedish | inbillning (delusion, fancy, illusion), fantasi (extravaganza, fanciful, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, imaginative power, make believe, make-believe, phantasy). (various references) | |
Thai | จินตนาการ (conceit, envisage, fancy, feature, figure, imagine, see). (various references) | |
Turkish | imgelem (fancy, fantasy, phantasy), tasavvur (concept, proposal, thinking), kuruntu (chimera, cobweb, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fears, hip, hypochondria, misgiving, phantasy, shyness, specter, spectre, the dismals, unfounded suspicion, vapor, vapour, vision), hayal gücü (fantasy, imaginativeness, phantasy, vision), hayal etme (concept, imagining), hayal (bubble, castles in spain, castles in the air, day dream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy, illusion, illusiveness, phantasy, pink elephant, pipe dream, reflection, reverie, shadow, simulacrum, specter, spectre, vision, waking dream). (various references) | |
Turkmen | fantaziяa (r) (fantasy). (various references) | |
Ukranian | уява (fancy, fantasy, thought, vision, whimsey, whimsy), фантазія (crotchet, day dream, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, moonshine, phantasy), творча уява. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trí tưởng tượng, sức tưởng tượng. (various references) | |
Welsh | dychymyg (device, fancy, riddle), darfelydd. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | phantasia. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 51 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epoihsen kratoV en bracioni autou dieskorpisen uperhfanouV dianoia kardiaV autwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Fecit potentiam in brachio suo dispersit superbos mente cordis sui |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | He worhte on hys earme: he todælde þa of ermodan. On mode hyra heortan; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | He made myyt in his arme, he scaterede proude men with the thouyte of his herte. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | He sheweth strength with his arme he scattereth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hertes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | He hath shown strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 51 |
| Bulgarian | Извърши силни дела със Своята мишца; разпръсна ония, които са горделиви в мислите на сърцето си. |
| Cebuano | Siya nakapakitag kusog pinaagi sa iyang bukton, iyang gipatibulaag ang mga tigpahitaas diha sa mga pagpamalandong sa ilang mga kasingkasing, |
| Chinese | 他 " 膀 臂 施 展 大 能 ． 那 狂 傲 的 人 、 正 心 裡 妄 想 、 就 被 他 趕 散 了 。 |
| Croatian | Iskaza snagu mišice svoje, rasprši oholice umišljene. |
| Danish | Han har øvet Vælde med sin Arm; han har adspredt dem, som ere hovmodige i deres Hjertes Tanke. |
| Dutch | Hij heeft een krachtig werk gedaan door Zijn arm; Hij heeft verstrooid de hoogmoedigen in de gedachten hunner harten. |
| Finnish | Hän on osoittanut voimansa käsivarrellaan; hän on hajottanut ne, joilla oli ylpeät ajatukset sydämessään. |
| French | Il a déployé la force de son bras; Il a dispersé ceux qui avaient dans le coeur des pensées orgueilleuses. |
| German | Er übet Gewalt mit seinem Arm und zerstreut, die hoffärtig sind in ihres Herzens Sinn. |
| Haitian Creole | Li fè lèzòm santi fòs ponyèt li. Li fè moun ki gen lògèy ak gwo lide nan kè yo pèdi tèt yo. |
| Hungarian | Hatalmas dolgot cselekedék karjának ereje által, elszéleszté az õ szívök gondolatában felfuvalkodottakat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dengan tangan-Nya yang perkasa Ia menceraiberaikan orang sombong, dan mengacaukan rencana mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Ia menunjukkan perbuatan yang berkuasa dengan tangan-Nya; dan mencerai-beraikan orang yang berhati sombong. |
| Italian | Ha spiegato la potenza del suo braccio, ha disperso i superbi nei pensieri del loro cuore; |
| Korean | 그 의 " 로 힘 을 보 이 사 마 음 의 생 각 이 교 만 한 자 " 을 흩 으 셨 |
| Latvian | Viòð parâdîja varu ar savu elkoni, izklîdinâdams lepnos savâ sirdsprâtâ. |
| Manx Gaelic | T'eh er hoilshaghey niart lesh e roih t'eh er skeayley ny moyrnee ayns mooaralys nyn greeaghyn. |
| Maori | Kua whakaputaina he kaha e ia, ara e tona ringa; nana te hunga whakakake i marara ai, i te whakaaro o o ratou ngakau. |
| Modern Greek | Ενηργησε κραταιως δια του βραχιονος αυτου· διεσκορπισε τους υπερηφανους κατα τα διανοηματα της καρδιας αυτων. |
| Norwegian | Han gjorde veldig verk med sin arm, han adspredte dem som var overmodige i sitt hjertes tanke; |
| Portuguese | Com o seu braço manifestou poder; dissipou os que eram soberbos nos pensamentos de seus corações; |
| Rumanian | El a arqtat putere cu brayul Lui; a risipit gkndurile, pe cari le aveau cei mkndri kn inima lor. |
| Russian | СЧЙМ УЙМХ НЩЫ"Щ уЧПЕК; ТБУУЕСМ ОБ"НЕООЩИ ПНЩЫМЕОЙСНЙ УЕТ""Б ЙИ; |
| Shuar | Ti itiurchatan Páchitsuk Túraiti Nii. "Nankaamantuitjai" tu Enentáimtumainia nuna nupetkaiti. |
| Spanish | Hizo proezas con su brazo; esparció a los soberbios en el pensamiento de sus corazones. |
| Swahili | Amefanya mambo makuu kwa mkono wake: amewatawanya wenye kiburi katika mawazo ya mioyo yao; |
| Swedish | Han har utfört väldiga gärningar med sin arm, han har förskingrat dem som tänkte övermodiga tankar i sina hjärtan. |
| Thai | พระองค์ทรงสำแ"งฤทธิ์"้วยพระกรของพระองค์ พระองค์ทรงกระทำให้คนที่มีใจเย่อหยิ่งแตกฉานซ่านเซ็นไป |
| Ukrainian | 'ін показу" міць Свого рамена, розпорошу" тих, хто пиша"ться думкою серця свого! |
| Uma | Nababehi anu mobaraka' hante kuasa-na: Tauna to molangko nono-ra nagaro' bona uma oko patuju-ra. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imagination": imaginations. (additional references) | |
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"Imagination" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: evagination, imaginatino, imaginatio, Imaginator, imagintion, imgination, marination. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "imagination" (pronounced i'ma'junā"shun) |
| 8 | -a' j u n ā" sh u n | pagination. |
| 7 | -j u n ā" sh u n | hydrogenation, origination. |
| 6 | -u n ā" sh u n | abomination, alienation, antidiscrimination, assassination, combination, concatenation, contamination, coordination, coronation, culmination, decaffeination, decontamination, denomination, desalination, destination, determination, detonation, discrimination, disinclination, dissemination, divination, domination, elimination, emanation, examination, explanation, extermination, fascination, germination, hallucination, illumination, impersonation, inclination, incoordination, incrimination, indoctrination, insemination, insubordination, intonation, machination, nomination, nondiscrimination, ordination, pollination, predestination, procrastination, profanation, recrimination, reexamination, rejuvenation, renomination, rumination, subordination, termination, transillumination, vaccination. |
| 5 | -n ā" sh u n | carnation, condemnation, consternation, damnation, designation, donation, hibernation, impregnation, incarnation, indignation, nation, reincarnation, resignation, stagnation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, appellation, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, compilation, complication, computation, computerization, concentration, conciliation, condensation, confabulation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contemplation, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, cultivation, dalmatian, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, deregulation, derivation, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discoloration, discontinuation, disembarkation, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, diversification, documentation, domestication, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, electrification, elevation, elongation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emulation, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentrification, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, harmonization, hesitation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hyperinflation, identification, illustration, imitation, immigration, immunization, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incorporation, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, innovation, inoculation, insinuation, inspiration, installation, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insulation, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, organisation, organization, orientation, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pontification, popularization, population, precipitation, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procreation, prognostication, proliferation, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, reservation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, titillation, toleration, transformation, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abduction, abolition, abortion, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, faction, fashion, fiction, fission, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: animating, animation. | |
-3 letters: agnation, agnomina, amanitin, ignition, maintain. | |
-4 letters: angioma, animato, antiman, atoning, ignatia, minting, moaning, moating, tongman. | |
-5 letters: aiming, amnion, angina, anoint, anting, gitano, goanna, intima, magian, manito, mating, mignon, mining, minion, naming, nation, nomina, noting, taming, timing, tining, tinman, toning. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: imaginations. | |
+2 letters: magnification. | |
+3 letters: magnifications. | |
+4 letters: marginalization. | |
+5 letters: circumnavigation, marginalizations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 61 67 69 6E 61 74 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .- --. .. -. .- - .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m a g i n a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0061 0067 0069 006E 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4379677375806786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Company Usage 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Orthography 24. Bibliography |
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