creative thinking, creativeness, creativity - the ability to create

imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings

fancy - fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination

fantasy, phantasy - imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"

dreaming, dream - imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"

imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction

representational process - any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else

mind's eye - the imaging of remembered or invented scenes; "I could see her clearly in my mind's eye"

vision - a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death"

envisioning, picturing - visual imagery

dream, dreaming - a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night"

chimaera, chimera - a grotesque product of the imagination

evocation - imaginative re-creation

make-believe, pretense, pretence - imaginative intellectual play

cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness - the power of creative imagination

armory, armoury, inventory - a collection of resources; "he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer"