The power or capacity to form internal images or ideas of objects and situations not actually present to the senses, including remembered objects…

In general use: the action or faculty of imagining or conceiving something in the mind; the forming or creation of a mental image, idea, or concept…

The action of imagine, v., in various senses; imagination.

Used vaguely: an idea, a notion, a thought, a belief, a fancy; a suspicion; an expectation.

The action of conceiving something in the mind. Also: something conceived in the mind; a thought, belief, or opinion.

Formation or expression of a mental picture, esp. through vivid or graphic description in words; an instance of this.

In early use synonymous with imagination, n. (see fantasy, n. 4); the process, and the faculty, of forming mental representations of things not…

Invention, excogitation; fictitious invention, fiction. Now only poetic. Formerly also with more reproachful sense: †Deception, lying; a…

The formation of an idea in the mind; conception, imagination. Obsolete.

†(a) The formation of mental images; imagination, fancy, groundless belief. Obsolete. (b) Now chiefly Psychology. Mental images collectively or…

The action or process of forming a mental image of something; an instance of this. Also: the action or process of representing something in written…

The formation of ideas or mental images of things not present to the senses; the creation of new ideas.

the action of presenting (an object) to one's own consciousness.

(also attributive) and adj.

the action of envisage, v.

The action or fact of visualizing; the power or process of forming a mental picture or vision of something not actually present to the sight; a…

The action of project, v. (in various senses); = projection, n. Also: an instance of this.