imaginativeness

Definitions of imaginativeness

1. noun

   the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
   synonyms: imagination, vision

   types:

   fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place

   a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings

   fancy

   a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

   fantasy, phantasy

   imagination unrestricted by reality

   dream, dreaming

   imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

   imaginary being, imaginary creature

   a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction

   afterworld

   the place where you are after you die

   Annwfn, Annwn

   (Welsh mythology) the other world; land of fairies

   Asgard

   (Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes

   Atlantis

   according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake

   Brobdingnag

   a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous

   cloud-cuckoo-land

   an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality

   Cockaigne

   (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness

   El Dorado, eldorado

   an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers

   faerie, faery, fairyland

   the enchanted realm of fairies

   Heaven

   the abode of God and the angels

   Elysium

   a place or condition of ideal happiness

   Hades, Hell, Scheol, infernal region, netherworld, underworld

   (religion) the world of the dead

   Hell, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, perdition, pit

   (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment

   Houyhnhnms

   a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos

   Laputa

   a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected

   Lilliput

   a land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people

   limbo

   (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)

   limbo

   an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

   Midgard

   (Norse mythology) the abode of humans in Norse mythology

   dreamland, dreamworld, never-never land

   a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination

   purgatory

   (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins

   Ruritania

   an imaginary kingdom in central Europe; often used as a scene for intrigue and romance

   spirit world

   any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide

   Sion, Utopia, Zion

   an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal

   wonderland

   an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders

   dream, pipe dream

   a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

   fantasy life, phantasy life

   an imaginary life lived in a fantasy world

   fairyland, fantasy world, phantasy world

   something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)

   air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery

   absentminded dreaming while awake

   woolgathering

   an idle indulgence in fantasy

   hypothetical creature

   a creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist

   mythical being

   an imaginary being of myth or fable

   giant

   an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales

   hobbit

   an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien

   mermaid

   half woman and half fish; lives in the sea

   merman

   half man and half fish; lives in the sea

   Cadmus

   (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia

   monster

   an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts

   witch

   a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil

   character, fictional character, fictitious character

   an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

   psychopomp

   a conductor of souls to the afterworld

   sylph

   an elemental being believed to inhabit the air

   unicorn

   an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead

   type of:

   creative thinking, creativeness, creativity

   the ability to create