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Definition 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. "Imagination reveals what the world could be"
Generic synonyms: Creative Thinking, Creativeness, Creativity
Specialized synonyms: Fictitious Place, Imaginary Place, Mythical Place, Fancy, Fantasy, Phantasy, Dream, Dreaming, Imaginary Being, Imaginary Creature
Derivative terms: Imagine, Imaginative
Definition of Imaginativeness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being imaginative. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imaginativeness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Imaginativeness
Literary usage of Imaginativeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natives of Northern India by William Crooke (1907)
"Imaginativeness. Training of girls. Infant marriage, its origin and results.
The mother-in-law. Training of boys. Amusements. Dancing. Persistence of habit. ..."
2. The Plantation Negro as a Freeman: Observations on His Character, Condition by Philip Alexander Bruce (1889)
"As this imaginativeness is merely a characteristic of race immaturity, just as
the imaginativeness of a child is but the characteristic of infancy (although ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1887)
"... type in a " Florentine Minstrel," to the exclusion of the personal and the
particular, he fails in imaginativeness and falls back on the conventional. ..."
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