imagination

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To this plan Zillah readily agreed, for her imagination was at all times far stronger than her reason.

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  1. noun The formation of a mental image of something that is neither perceived as real nor present to the senses.
  2. noun The mental image so formed.
  3. noun The ability or tendency to form such images.

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  1. from Middle English imaginacioun, ymaginacioun, from Old French ymagination, ymaginacion, French imagination = Provencal ymaginatio, emagenassio = Spanish imaginacion = Portuguese imaginação = Italian immaginazione, from Latin imaginatio(n-), imagination, from imaginari, imagine: see imagine.
 

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/ɪmædʒɪˈneɪʃən/
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