imagination

Vorstellungskraft, Fantasie

Die Fähigkeit, sich Dinge oder Ereignisse vorzustellen, die gerade nicht vorhanden sind oder stattfinden.

In einfachem Englisch: The ability to picture things in your mind that are not really present or happening.

• Use your imagination to picture a beach.
• The child has a vivid imagination.
• Was that noise real, or just my imagination?

So benutzt man es: in someone’s imagination (The monster exists only in his imagination.)

Häufige Wendungen: use your imagination, a vivid imagination, in your imagination, mental imagination

Kreativität, Fantasie

Die Fähigkeit, neue Ideen oder interessante Möglichkeiten zu finden, etwas zu tun.

In einfachem Englisch: The ability to think of new ideas or interesting ways to do things.

• This design shows great imagination.
• She used her imagination to solve the problem.
• The team needs someone with more imagination.

Synonyme: creativity, inventiveness

Häufige Wendungen: show imagination, creative imagination, lack of imagination, a little imagination

Einbildung, Fantasie

Dinge, die man sich vorstellt, die aber nicht wirklich existieren.

In einfachem Englisch: Things you picture in your mind that are not real.

• The footsteps were only in my imagination.
• Her imagination turned every shadow into a monster.
• Was that sound real, or was it my imagination?

Synonyme: fantasy

Häufige Wendungen: your imagination, just imagination, overactive imagination