<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.</li><li>the action or process of forming such images or concepts.</li><li>the faculty of producing ideal creations consistent with reality, as in literature, as distinct from the power of creating illustrative or decorative imagery.</li><li>the product of imagining a conception or mental creation, often a baseless or fanciful one.</li><li>ability to face and resolve difficulties; resourcefulness: a job that requires imagination.</li><li>Psychology: the power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images, reproductive imagination, or of recombining former experiences in the creation of new images directed at a specific goal or aiding in the solution of problems, creative imagination.</li><li>(in Kantian epistemology) synthesis of data from the sensory manifold into objects by means of the categories.</li><li>Archaic: a plan, scheme, or plot.</li></ul>