imagination

想像力、想像

その場にない物や、実際には起きていないことを心に描く力。

やさしい英語で： 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?

使い方： in someone’s imagination (The monster exists only in his imagination.)

よく使う表現： use your imagination, a vivid imagination, in your imagination, mental imagination

創造力、発想力

新しい考えや、物事を行う面白い方法を思いつく力。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： creativity, inventiveness

よく使う表現： show imagination, creative imagination, lack of imagination, a little imagination

空想、思い込み

頭の中で思い描く、実際には存在しないこと。

やさしい英語で： 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?

類義語： fantasy

よく使う表現： your imagination, just imagination, overactive imagination