imagination

imagination

Capacité à se représenter dans l’esprit des choses absentes ou des événements qui n’ont pas lieu.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : in someone’s imagination (The monster exists only in his imagination.)

Expressions courantes : use your imagination, a vivid imagination, in your imagination, mental imagination

créativité, imagination

Capacité à trouver de nouvelles idées ou des façons originales de faire les choses.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : creativity, inventiveness

Expressions courantes : show imagination, creative imagination, lack of imagination, a little imagination

imagination

Choses que l’on se représente dans l’esprit, mais qui ne sont pas réelles.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : fantasy

Expressions courantes : your imagination, just imagination, overactive imagination