imagination
noun
[ ɪˌmadʒɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n ]
• the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.
• "she'd never been blessed with a vivid imagination"
Similar:
imaginative faculty,
creative power,
fancy,
mind's eye,
interest,
fascination,
attention,
passion,
curiosity,
preoccupation,
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin imaginatio(n- ), from the verb imaginari ‘picture to oneself’, from imago, imagin- ‘image’.
