What is another word for imaginings?

Pronunciation: [ɪmˈad͡ʒɪnɪŋz] (IPA)

Imaginings refer to the mental images that we create in our minds. The term can be replaced by numerous synonyms that help add variety to written or spoken language. Some of the possible synonyms for imaginings include daydreams, fantasies, visions, hallucinations, fancies, reveries, delusions, illusions, and perceptions. Each of these words represents a distinct way of describing the creation of mental pictures in the mind. Whether you are a writer, a poet, or a speaker, it is always a good practice to use synonyms to create more expressive language and engage your audience with a vivid imagination.

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  • Equivalence

    • Noun, plural
      Imaginations.

What are the hypernyms for Imaginings?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for imaginings?

Antonyms for the word "imaginings" include reality, fact, certainty, truth, veracity, authenticity, actuality, and real-world. Imaginings refer to something that is not real, illusionary or imaginative, whereas the antonyms refer to the truth, facts or actual events. For instance, if there is a discussion about political or economic developments in your country, your imaginings may not have a place in the discussion as the discussion is about actual events. Antonyms like truth or authenticity would be used instead. When describing or discussing something that is based on what we see, hear and experience in our day-to-day lives, we need to use antonyms of imaginary words like imaginings.

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Usage examples for Imaginings

As the drama neared its climax, we discovered this doctor to be the head of an asylum for the insane, and the young man to be one of the inmates; so in the end the series of adventures was revealed to us as the imaginings of a madman about his physician and keepers.
"They Call Me Carpenter"
Upton Sinclair
"I-I was a fool to deceive myself with such imaginings-that are far beyond me.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
When we shall become at one with nature in a sense profounder even than the poetic imaginings of most of us, we shall understand what now we fail to discern.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz

Famous quotes with Imaginings

  • Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
    Philip Roth
  • I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.
    Dodie Smith
  • A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
    Charles Dickens

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