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English Dictionary: imaginativeness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
imaginativeness
n
  1. the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"
    Synonym(s): imagination, imaginativeness, vision
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Imaginative \Im*ag"i*na*tive\, a. [F. imaginatif.]
      1. Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination,
            generally in the highest sense of the word.
  
                     In all the higher departments of imaginative art,
                     nature still constitutes an important element.
                                                                              --Mure.
  
      2. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having
            a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.
  
                     Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very
                     fanciful mind.                                    --Coleridge.
  
      3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
            {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness}, n.
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