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Imaginativeness

noun
1.
The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.  Synonyms: imagination, vision.  "Imagination reveals what the world could be"






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"Imaginativeness" Quotes from Famous Books



... swift imaginativeness which makes the feminine contribution to life so much a thing of charm and colour, Elise pursued the paths which Youth has for its own—those wonderful streets of fantasy that end with adolescence in Society's ugly ...
— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter

... discretion, and flings all experience to the winds. One wife turns her husband into a fount of begging letters. Another forces him to set up manufactories for all the lucifer-match girls of the parish. Woman's imaginativeness, woman's fancy, woman's indifference to fact exhausts itself in "sensational cases," and revels in starvation and death. But we must turn to a brighter side of her activity. Ritualism is the great modern result of the parson's wife, though, with a base ingratitude ...
— Modern Women and What is Said of Them - A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) • Anonymous



Words linked to "Imaginativeness" :   fancy, phantasy, mythical place, imaginary creature, fantasy, imaginative, vision, fictitious place, dreaming, imagination, imaginary being, creativeness, dream, imaginary place, creativity, creative thinking



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