imagination

The word “imagination” has 5 syllables: i-mag-i-na-tion

It's pronounced as /ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for imagination?

In the thesaurus, “imagination” has 76 synonyms and 17 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for imagination along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for imagination

  • acuteness
  • artistry
  • awareness
  • brainstorm
  • brainstorming
  • capableness
  • chimera
  • cleverness
  • cognition
  • conception
  • contrivance
  • creation
  • creative thought
  • creativeness
  • creativity
  • daydream
  • delusion
  • dream
  • enterprise
  • envisaging
  • fabrication
  • fancy
  • fantasm
  • fantasy
  • fecundity
  • fertility
  • figment
  • fire
  • flight of fancy
  • fruitfulness
  • genius
  • giftedness
  • hallucination
  • idea
  • ideality
  • ideation
  • illusion
  • image
  • imagery
  • imaginativeness
  • ingeniousness
  • ingenuity
  • innovativeness
  • insight
  • inspiration
  • intelligence
  • invention
  • inventiveness
  • mental agility
  • mirage
  • muse
  • notion
  • originality
  • perceptibility
  • phantasm
  • phantasy
  • pipe dream
  • productiveness
  • productivity
  • prolificacy
  • prolificity
  • prolificness
  • realization
  • resourcefulness
  • sally
  • supposition
  • talent
  • thought
  • thoughtfulness
  • unreality
  • versatility
  • verve
  • vision
  • visualization
  • wit
  • wittiness

Antonyms for imagination

  • being
  • concrete
  • death
  • dryness
  • dullness
  • dulness
  • entity
  • existence
  • fact
  • ignorance
  • inability
  • literality
  • literalness
  • material
  • reality
  • substance
  • truth

Meanings of imagination

  • noun
    1. The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
    2. Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
    3. Creativity; resourcefulness.
    4. A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.

Example Sentences

  • Children often have boundless imagination, turning everyday objects into fantastical creatures.
  • The author's vivid imagination brought the fictional world of his novel to life, captivating readers worldwide.
  • Innovation and progress are driven by the human imagination, pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
  • The artist's masterpiece was a testament to her creativity and imagination, transcending the confines of traditional art.
  • Through the lens of his imagination, the filmmaker transformed mundane settings into cinematic wonders, mesmerizing audiences with his vision.

On this page you'll find 93 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to imagination, such as: acuteness, artistry, awareness, being, brainstorm, brainstorming, capableness.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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daydream

fairyland

fakery

  • act
  • acting
  • affectation
  • appearance
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • burlesque
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • canard
  • cant
  • caricature
  • charade
  • cheat
  • cheating
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • claim
  • cloak
  • counterfeit
  • cover-up
  • covertness
  • cozenage
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • deceptiveness
  • deviousness
  • disguise
  • dishonesty
  • display
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • distortion
  • double-dealing
  • dream
  • dumb act
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • equivocation
  • erroneousness
  • error
  • evasion
  • excuse
  • fable
  • fabrication
  • facade
  • fairy tale
  • fake
  • faking
  • fallaciousness
  • fallacy
  • false front
  • falsehood
  • falseness
  • falsification
  • falsity
  • fantasy
  • farce
  • feigning
  • feint
  • fib
  • fibbery
  • fiction
  • figment
  • flimflam
  • forgery
  • foxiness
  • fraud
  • fraudulence
  • furtiveness
  • gag
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • guise
  • half-truth
  • hanky-panky
  • hogwash
  • hypocrisy
  • hypocriticalness
  • imagination
  • imitation
  • impostor
  • imposture
  • insincerity
  • invention
  • jive
  • jugglery
  • legerdemain
  • line
  • lying
  • make believe
  • mask
  • masquerade
  • mendacity
  • misrepresentation
  • misstatement
  • mockery
  • mountebankery
  • obliquity
  • oiliness
  • ostentation
  • pageant
  • perjury
  • pharisaism
  • phoniness
  • playacting
  • posing
  • posturing
  • pretense
  • pretension
  • pretentiousness
  • pretext
  • prevarication
  • put on
  • routine
  • ruse
  • sanctimoniousness
  • schtick
  • secrecy
  • sell
  • semblance
  • shadiness
  • sham
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • shuffling
  • simulation
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • smoke
  • smoothness
  • sneakiness
  • snow job
  • spoof
  • stall
  • stealthiness
  • story
  • stunt
  • subterfuge
  • swindling
  • tale
  • tall tale
  • travesty
  • treacherousness
  • trickery
  • two-facedness
  • underhandedness
  • unscrupulousness
  • untruism
  • untruth
  • untruthfulness
  • veil
  • veneer
  • whopper
  • wile
  • wiliness
  • yarn

fancies

  • Shangri-las
  • admires
  • adores
  • appetites
  • appreciates
  • approve
  • be attracted to
  • be captivated by
  • be enamored of
  • be in love with
  • be inclined to think
  • bees
  • believe
  • bents
  • biases
  • big eyes
  • brainchildren
  • brainstorms
  • caprice
  • caprices
  • care for
  • castles in Spain
  • castles in the air
  • cherishes
  • chimera
  • chimeras
  • cloud-cuckoo-lands
  • cloudlands
  • conceit
  • conceits
  • conceive
  • conceives
  • conception
  • conceptions
  • concepts
  • concoctions
  • concocts
  • conjecture
  • contemplates
  • contrariness
  • cranks
  • crave
  • cravings
  • crazy about
  • creation
  • cup of tea
  • daydream
  • daydreams
  • daymares
  • delusion
  • delusions
  • desire
  • desires
  • devours
  • digs
  • dream of
  • dream up
  • dreams
  • druthers
  • endorse
  • enjoys
  • enthusiasms
  • envisage
  • envisagement
  • envisages
  • envision
  • envisioning
  • envisions
  • eyes for
  • fables
  • fabricates
  • fabrication
  • fabrications
  • fall for
  • fantasies
  • fantasize
  • fantasizes
  • fantasms
  • fantasy
  • favor
  • favors
  • feature
  • features
  • fictions
  • figment
  • figments
  • flash
  • fondness
  • foresees
  • freaks
  • gets a charge out of
  • gets a kick out of
  • goes for
  • groove
  • guess
  • gustoes
  • hallucinates
  • hallucination
  • hallucinations
  • hankering
  • has a soft spot for
  • head trip
  • humor
  • humors
  • idea
  • ideas
  • ideates
  • idolizes
  • ignes fatui
  • illusion
  • illusions
  • image
  • images
  • imagination
  • imaginativeness
  • imagines
  • impetuosities
  • impression
  • impressions
  • inclination
  • inclinations
  • infer
  • inspirations
  • interests
  • invention
  • inventions
  • invents
  • irrationality
  • is partial to
  • itch
  • kinks
  • leanings
  • like
  • likes
  • liking
  • likings
  • long for
  • longings
  • love affairs
  • loves
  • lust after
  • mad for
  • maggots
  • make up
  • makes up
  • manufactures
  • meditates
  • megrims
  • mind
  • mirage
  • mirages
  • muses
  • nightmare
  • nightmares
  • nonentities
  • notion
  • notions
  • palates
  • partialities
  • partiality
  • passions
  • penchant
  • perverseness
  • phantasies
  • phantasm
  • phantasms
  • phantom
  • picture
  • pictures
  • pie in the sky
  • pipe dream
  • pipe dreams
  • plans
  • pleasure
  • ponders
  • predilection
  • prefer
  • preference
  • preferences
  • prefers
  • prefigures
  • prejudices
  • prizes
  • projects
  • propensities
  • re-creates
  • realize
  • reckon
  • reflects
  • relish
  • relishes
  • relives
  • reminisces
  • reveres
  • reverie
  • romancing
  • ruminates
  • sanction
  • savors
  • savours
  • sees
  • shines
  • spark
  • spitball
  • stargazes
  • suppose
  • surmise
  • sweet tooth
  • take a liking to
  • take to
  • takes to
  • tastes
  • teeth
  • tendencies
  • thing
  • think
  • think likely
  • think up
  • thirsts
  • thought
  • thoughts
  • treasures
  • trump up
  • unrealities
  • uses
  • utopias
  • vagaries
  • vagary
  • vagrancies
  • values
  • velleity
  • venerates
  • vision
  • visions
  • visualization
  • visualizations
  • visualize
  • visualizes
  • weakness for
  • weaknesses
  • whim
  • whims
  • whimseys
  • whimsicalities
  • whimsies
  • wild for
  • will
  • wish for
  • worships
  • yearn for
  • yearning
  • yen
  • yens

fancy

  • Byzantine
  • Shangri-la
  • a bit much
  • admire
  • adore
  • adorned
  • appetite
  • appreciate
  • approve
  • baroque
  • be attracted to
  • be captivated by
  • be enamored of
  • be in love with
  • be inclined to think
  • be partial to
  • beautifying
  • bee
  • believe
  • bent
  • bias
  • big eyes
  • boundless
  • brainchild
  • brainstorm
  • brainstorming
  • caprice
  • capriciousness
  • care for
  • castle in Spain
  • castle in the air
  • cherish
  • chichi
  • chimera
  • cloud-cuckoo-land
  • cloudland
  • complex
  • complicated
  • conceit
  • conceive
  • concept
  • conception
  • concoct
  • concoction
  • conjecture
  • contemplate
  • contrariness
  • contrivance
  • convoluted
  • crank
  • crave
  • craving
  • crazy about
  • creation
  • creativity
  • cup of tea
  • cushy
  • custom
  • daydream
  • daymare
  • decorated
  • decorative
  • delusion
  • deluxe
  • desire
  • detailed
  • devilish
  • devour
  • dig
  • dream
  • dream of
  • dream up
  • druthers
  • elaborate
  • elegant
  • embellished
  • endless
  • endorse
  • enjoy
  • enthusiasm
  • envisage
  • envisagement
  • envisaging
  • envision
  • envisioning
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • exquisite
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • exuberant
  • eyes for
  • fable
  • fabricate
  • fabrication
  • fall for
  • fancified
  • fanciful
  • fancifulness
  • fantasize
  • fantasm
  • fantasy
  • favor
  • feature
  • fecundity
  • fertility
  • fiction
  • figment
  • flamboyant
  • flash
  • florid
  • fondness
  • foresee
  • freak
  • freakishness
  • frilly
  • froufrou
  • garnished
  • gaudy
  • get a charge out of
  • get a kick out of
  • gingerbread
  • go for
  • grand
  • grandiose
  • groove
  • guess
  • gusto
  • hallucinate
  • hallucination
  • hankering
  • have a soft spot for
  • head trip
  • humor
  • idea
  • ideate
  • ideation
  • idolize
  • ignis fatuus
  • illusion
  • image
  • imagination
  • imaginativeness
  • imagine
  • imaging
  • immeasurable
  • immoderate
  • impetuosity
  • impression
  • improper
  • inappropriate
  • inclination
  • infer
  • infinite
  • ingenuity
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • inspiration
  • interest
  • intolerable
  • intricate
  • invent
  • invention
  • inventiveness
  • involute
  • involuted
  • involved
  • irrationality
  • itch
  • kink
  • labyrinthian
  • labyrinthine
  • lavish
  • leaning
  • like
  • liking
  • limitless
  • long for
  • longing
  • love
  • love affair
  • lust after
  • mad for
  • maggot
  • magnificent
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • meditate
  • megrim
  • mind
  • mirage
  • muse
  • nightmare
  • nonentity
  • notion
  • originality
  • ornate
  • ostentatious
  • over the top
  • overdue
  • overextravagant
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • overwrought
  • palate
  • partiality
  • passion
  • penchant
  • perverseness
  • phantasm
  • phantasy
  • phantom
  • picture
  • pie in the sky
  • pipe dream
  • plan
  • pleasure
  • plethoric
  • ponder
  • predilection
  • prefer
  • preference
  • prefigure
  • prejudice
  • prize
  • project
  • propensity
  • re-create
  • realize
  • reckon
  • reflect
  • relish
  • relive
  • reminisce
  • resourcefulness
  • resplendent
  • revere
  • reverie
  • rich
  • rococo
  • romancing
  • ruminate
  • sanction
  • savor
  • savour
  • see
  • shine
  • showy
  • sophisticated
  • souped-up
  • spark
  • special
  • spiffy
  • spitball
  • splendid
  • stargaze
  • steep
  • stiff
  • sumptuous
  • suppose
  • surmise
  • sweet tooth
  • take a liking to
  • take to
  • taste
  • tendency
  • thick
  • thing
  • think
  • think likely
  • think up
  • thirst
  • thought
  • tooth
  • towering
  • treasure
  • trump up
  • unbearable
  • unconscionable
  • undue
  • unjustifiable
  • unmerciful
  • unreality
  • unrestrained
  • unseemly
  • unusual
  • unwarranted
  • use
  • utopia
  • vagary
  • vagrancy
  • value
  • velleity
  • venerate
  • versatility
  • vision
  • visualization
  • visualize
  • weakness
  • weakness for
  • whim
  • whimsey
  • whimsicality
  • whimsy
  • wild for
  • will
  • wish for
  • worship
  • yearn for
  • yearning
  • yen

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