inspiration; verve.
warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination,
sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling
imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination,
playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy.
mind's eye; such stuff as dreams are made of [Tempest].
ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism, castle-building.
dreaming; phrensy†, frenzy; ecstasy, extasy†; calenture &c
(delirium) 503 [Obs.]; reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream;
somnambulism.
conception, Vorstellung [G.], excogitation†, a fine frenzy;
cloudland†, dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; thick coming
fancies [Macbeth]; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain;
imagery.
conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera;
phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey†, whimsy; vagary,
rhapsody, romance, gest†, geste†, extravaganza; air drawn dagger,
bugbear, nightmare.
flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the
air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne [Fr.]; Utopia,
Atlantis†, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John,
kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction &c (novel) 594; Arabian nights†;
le pot au lait [Fr.]; dream of Alnashar &c (hope) 858 [Obs.].
illusion &c (error) 495; phantom &c (fallacy of vision) 443; Fata
Morgana &c (ignis fatuus) 423 [Lat.]; vapor &c (cloud) 353; stretch of
the imagination &c (exaggeration) 549; mythogenesis†.
idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus†; romancer, dreamer;
somnambulist; rhapsodist &c (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful
projector.
V. imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream
up; give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name [Midsummer
Night's Dream].
create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise,
strike out something new.
set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's
invention; rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's
brains; excogitate†; brainstorm.
give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give
fancy; indulge in reverie.
visualize, envision, conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, represent
oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen [G.].
float in the mind; suggest itself &c (thought) 451.
Adj. imagined &c v.; ben trovato [It]; air drawn, airbuilt†.
imagining &c v., imaginative; original, inventive, creative,
fertile.
romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic,
unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic.
ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus [Lat.]; unsubsantial† &c
4; illusory &c (fallacious) 495.
fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical;
imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic,
fantastical†; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic†.
Phr. a change came o'er the spirit of my dream [Byron]; aegri somnia
vana [Lat.]; dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum [Horace];
fancy light from fancy caught [Tennyson]; imagination rules the world
[Napoleon]; l'imagination gallope [Fr.], le jugement ne va que le pas
[Fr.]; musaeo contingens cuncta lepore [Lat.] [Lucretius]; tous songes
sont mensonges [Fr.]; Wahrheil und Dichtung [G.].
DIVISION II
COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS
SECTION I.
NATURE OF IDEAS COMMUNICATED