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Definition of Overimaginative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overimaginative
Literary usage of Overimaginative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Science Monthly (1902)
"... home who 'cook up' cable despatches, and with those living in the islands
whose nerves are gone and who are thereby in an overimaginative frame of mind. ..."
2. Health and Medical Inspection of School Children by Walter Stewart Cornell (1912)
"... but is also an effect of a broken-down nervous system. In the latter case it
is due to the oversensitive nerves and overimaginative mind. ..."
3. Theory and Practice of the Kindergarten by Nora Atwood (1916)
"... the child with the overdeveloped predatory instinct, in property rights; the
overimaginative child must be brought 1 The Education of Man, pp. ..."
4. A Study of the Little Child: For Teachers of Beginners by Mary Theodora Whitley (1921)
"Other overimaginative children prefer them, or .else roles which they invent for
themselves, to mimicking any objective, outside-in-the-world person. ..."
5. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases by Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Health, Walter Elmore Fernald, George Milton Kline, Elmer Ernest Southard, Douglas Armour Thom, George L. Wallace (1918)
"... we expect frontal lobe lesions in cases of delusion formation, provided that
the delusion formation is not of the fantastic and overimaginative sort, ..."
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