imagination

/ɪˈmædʒəˌneɪʃən/

/ɪmædʒɪˈnɛɪʃən/

Other forms: imaginations

Imagination refers to the process of forming images or concepts in the mind, often images of things that are not really there. That shark in your bathtub must have been in your imagination — or was it?

Often shunned for living in a dream world, imagination is behind unicorns, Big Foot, and excessive daydreaming. But it’s humans’ ability to picture what is not there, and to be resourceful and creative, that is behind many of our achievements. Maybe that’s why Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” After all, without a little imagination, we wouldn’t have the pyramids, the space shuttles, or the Star Wars trilogy.

Definitions of imagination

noun
the ability to form mental images of things or events

“he could still hear her in his imagination”

synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery

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mind's eye
the imaging of remembered or invented scenes

vision
a vivid mental image

envisioning, picturing
visual imagery

dream, dreaming
a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

chimaera, chimera
a grotesque product of the imagination

evocation
imaginative re-creation

make-believe, pretence, pretense
imaginative intellectual play

nightmare
a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream

prevision
a prophetic vision (as in a dream)

retrovision
a vision of events in the distant past

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representational process
any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else
noun
the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

“popular imagination created a world of demons”

“imagination reveals what the world could be”

synonyms: imaginativeness, vision

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Augeas
(Greek mythology) the mythical Greek king who for 30 years did not clean his stables which contained his vast herd of cattle

Alcyone
(Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher

Arjuna
(Hindu mythology) the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God

Death
the personification of death

Gargantua
a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name

Maxwell's demon
an imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics

Martian
imaginary people who live on the planet Mars

Humpty Dumpty
an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)

Jack Frost
a personification of frost or winter weather

Mammon
(New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit

Scylla
(Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait; drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait

Stentor
the mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes

Dardanus
(Greek mythology) founder of Troy

Ganymede
(Greek mythology) a Trojan boy who was so beautiful that Zeus carried him away to serve as cupbearer to the gods

Hyperborean
(Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind

Niobe
(Greek mythology) the daughter of Tantalus whose boasting about her children provoked Apollo and Artemis to slay them all; Niobe was turned to stone while bewailing her loss

Perseus
(Greek mythology) the son of Zeus who slew Medusa (with the help of Athena and Hermes) and rescued Andromeda from a sea monster

Andromeda
(Greek mythology) an Ethiopian princess and daughter of Cassiopeia; she was fastened to a rock and exposed to a sea monster that was sent by Poseidon, but she was rescued by Perseus and became his wife

Cepheus
(Greek mythology) king of Ethiopia and husband of Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia
(Greek mythology) the wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda

Midas
(Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold

Sisyphus
(Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again

Narcissus
(Greek mythology) a beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection

Nibelung
(German mythology) a companion or follower of Siegfried

Bellerophon
(Greek mythology) a mythical hero of Corinth who performed miracles on the winged horse Pegasus (especially killing the monster Chimera)

Paris
(Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War

Patroclus
(Greek mythology) a friend of Achilles who was killed in the Trojan War; his death led Achilles to return to the fight after his quarrel with Agamemnon

Pegasus
(Greek mythology) the immortal winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa; was tamed by Bellerophon with the help of a bridle given him by Athena; as the flying horse of the Muses it is a symbol of highflying imagination

Python
(Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi

Sarpedon
(Greek mythology) a son of Zeus who became king of Lycia; fought on behalf of the Trojans in the Trojan War and was killed by Patroclus

Siegfried
(German mythology) mythical German warrior hero of the Nibelungenlied who takes possession of the accursed treasure of the Nibelungs by slaying the dragon that guards it and awakens Brynhild and is eventually killed; Sigurd is the Norse counterpart

Sigurd
(Norse mythology) mythical Norse warrior hero who gains an accursed hoard of gold and was killed by Brynhild; Siegfried is the German counterpart

Eumenides
(classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

Enkidu
legendary friend of Gilgamish

Gilgamish
legendary Sumerian king and hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics

Sita
wife of the Hindu god Rama; regarded as an ideal of womanhood

Hero
(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her

Leander
(Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her

Pygmalion
(Greek mythology) a king who created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it; Aphrodite brought the sculpture to life as Galatea

Galatea
(Greek mythology) a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers

Romulus
(Roman mythology) founder of Rome; suckled with his twin brother Remus by a wolf after their parents (Mars and Rhea Silvia) abandoned them; Romulus killed Remus in an argument over the building of Rome

Remus
(Roman mythology) the twin brother of Romulus

Daedalus
(Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus

Icarus
(Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned

Procrustes
(Greek mythology) a mythical giant who was a thief and murderer; he would capture people and tie them to an iron bed, stretching them or hacking off their legs to make them fit; was killed by Theseus

Eurydice
(Greek mythology) the wife of Orpheus

Orion
(Greek mythology) a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation

Orpheus
(Greek mythology) a great musician; when his wife Eurydice died he went to Hades to get her back but failed

Psyche
(Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul

Heracles
(classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality

Pandora
(Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils

Fenrir
(Norse mythology) an enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin

Volund
(Norse mythology) a wonderful smith; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wayland and Teutonic Wieland

Yggdrasil
(Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and Heaven and Hell together

Ymir
(Norse mythology) the primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world: the sea from his blood; the earth from his flesh; the mountains from his bones; the sky from his skull

Wayland the Smith
(European mythology) a supernatural smith and king of the elves; identified with Norse Volund

Ajax
a mythical Greek hero; a warrior who fought against Troy in the Iliad

Aladdin
in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie

Argonaut
(Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece

Babar
an imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children

Beatrice
the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy

Beowulf
the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon

Bluebeard
(fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience

James Bond
British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming

Valkyrie
(Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla

Brer Rabbit
the fictional character of a rabbit who appeared in tales supposedly told by Uncle Remus and first published in 1880

Paul Bunyan
a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada

John Henry
hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill

Cheshire cat
a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll

Chicken Little
a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling

Cinderella
a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince

Colonel Blimp
a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low

Dracula
fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker

Jason
(Greek mythology) the husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece

Medea
(Greek mythology) a princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father

Laertes
(Greek mythology) the father of Odysseus

Odysseus
(Greek mythology) a famous mythical Greek hero; his return to Ithaca after the siege of Troy was described in the Odyssey

Ulysses
(Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus

Penelope
(Greek mythology) the wife of Odysseus and a symbol of devotion and fidelity; for 10 years while Odysseus fought the Trojan War she resisted numerous suitors until Odysseus returned and killed them

Theseus
(Greek mythology) a hero and king of Athens who was noted for his many great deeds: killed Procrustes and the Minotaur and defeated the Amazons and united Attica

Tantalus
(Greek mythology) a wicked king and son of Zeus; condemned in Hades to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink and beneath fruit that receded when he reached for it

Achilles
a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel'

Aeneas
a mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War; hero of the Aeneid

Atreus
(Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus

Agamemnon
(Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War

Menelaus
(Greek mythology) the king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War; brother of Agamemnon; husband of Helen

Iphigenia
(Greek mythology) the daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon; Agamemnon was obliged to offer her as a sacrifice to Artemis when the Greek fleet was becalmed on its way to Troy; Artemis rescued her and she later became a priestess

Clytemnestra
(Greek mythology) wife of Agamemnon who had him murdered when he returned from the Trojan War

Aegisthus
(Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him

Orestes
(Greek mythology) the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; his sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus

Antigone
(Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death

Creon
(Greek mythology) the brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus

Jocasta
(Greek mythology) queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus

Electra
(Greek mythology) the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; persuaded her brother (Orestes) to avenge Agamemnon's death by helping her to kill Clytemnestra and her lover (Aegisthus)

Laocoon
(Greek mythology) the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse; a god who favored the Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around Laocoon and his two twin sons killing them

Laius
(Greek mythology) king of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus

Myrmidon
(Greek mythology) a member of the warriors who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy

King Oedipus
(Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles

Tiresias
(Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother

Peleus
a king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles

Don Quixote
the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical

El Cid
the hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century

Fagin
a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens

Sir John Falstaff
a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays

Father Brown
a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton

Faustus
an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge

Frankenstein
the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses

Frankenstein's monster
the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)

Goofy
a cartoon character created by Walt Disney

Gulliver
a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift

Hamlet
the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father

Hector
(Greek mythology) a mythical Trojan who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War

Helen of Troy
(Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War

Captain Horatio Hornblower
a fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester

Iago
the villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife

Commissaire Maigret
a fictional detective in novels by Georges Simenon

Kilroy
a nonexistent person popularized by American servicemen during World War II

King Lear
the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters

Leda
(Greek mythology) a queen of Sparta who was raped by Zeus who had taken the form of a swan; Helen of Troy was conceived in the rape of Leda

Lilliputian
a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift

Philip Marlowe
tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler

Wilkins Micawber
fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist

Mother Goose
the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes

Mr. Moto
Japanese sleuth created by John Marquand

Othello
the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife

Pangloss
an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire

Pantaloon
a character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man

Perry Mason
fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner

Peter Pan
the main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie; a boy who won't grow up

Pied Piper of Hamelin
the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning

Pierrot
a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face

Pluto
a cartoon character created by Walt Disney

Huckleberry Finn
a mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain

Rip van Winkle
the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens

Ruritanian
an imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania

Tarzan of the Apes
a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tom Sawyer
the boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain

Uncle Remus
the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880

Uncle Tom
a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Sam
a personification of the United States government

Sherlock Holmes
a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle

Simon Legree
the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sinbad the Sailor
in the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages

Snoopy
a fictional beagle in a comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz

Ali Baba
the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment

Emile
the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

protagonist
the principal character in a work of fiction

Houyhnhnm
one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift

Little John
legendary follower of Robin Hood; noted for his size and strength

Little Red Riding Hood
a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother

Rodya Raskolnikov
a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil

Robin Hood
legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor

Robinson Crusoe
the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island

Rumpelstiltskin
a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself

Shylock
a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare

Father Christmas
the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas

Tristram
(Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other

Iseult
(Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other

Scaramouche
a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward

Svengali
the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically

Sweeney Todd
fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers

Tom Thumb
an imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb

Trilby
singer in a novel by George du Maurier who was under the control of the hypnotist Svengali

Walter Mitty
fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs

Yahoo
one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift

King Arthur
a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot

Sir Galahad
(Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail

Sir Gawain
(Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table

Guenevere
(Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table

Sir Lancelot
(Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere

Merlin
(Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor

Priam
(Greek mythology) the last king of Troy; father of Hector and Paris and Cassandra

Sasquatch
large hairy humanoid creature said to live in wilderness areas of the United States and Canada

Loch Ness monster
a large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland

Fafnir
(Norse mythology) the Norse dragon that guarded a treasure and was slain by Sigurd

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

fancy
a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

fantasy, phantasy
imagination unrestricted by reality

dream, dreaming
imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

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

afterworld
the place where you are after you die

Annwfn, Annwn
(Welsh mythology) the other world; land of fairies

Asgard
(Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes

Atlantis
according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake

Brobdingnag
a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous

cloud-cuckoo-land
an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality

Cockaigne
(Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness

El Dorado, eldorado
an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers

faerie, faery, fairyland
the enchanted realm of fairies

Heaven
the abode of God and the angels

Elysium
a place or condition of ideal happiness

Hades, Hell, Scheol, infernal region, netherworld, underworld
(religion) the world of the dead

Hell, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, perdition, pit
(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment

Houyhnhnms
a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos

Laputa
a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected

Lilliput
a land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people

limbo
(theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)

limbo
an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

Midgard
(Norse mythology) the abode of humans in Norse mythology

dreamland, dreamworld, never-never land
a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination

purgatory
(theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins

Ruritania
an imaginary kingdom in central Europe; often used as a scene for intrigue and romance

spirit world
any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide

Sion, Utopia, Zion
an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal

wonderland
an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders

dream, pipe dream
a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

fantasy life, phantasy life
an imaginary life lived in a fantasy world

fairyland, fantasy world, phantasy world
something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)

air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery
absentminded dreaming while awake

woolgathering
an idle indulgence in fantasy

hypothetical creature
a creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist

mythical being
an imaginary being of myth or fable

giant
an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales

hobbit
an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien

mermaid
half woman and half fish; lives in the sea

merman
half man and half fish; lives in the sea

Cadmus
(Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia

monster
an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts

witch
a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil

character, fictional character, fictitious character
an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

psychopomp
a conductor of souls to the afterworld

sylph
an elemental being believed to inhabit the air

unicorn
an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead

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creative thinking, creativeness, creativity
the ability to create
noun
the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

synonyms: resource, resourcefulness

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armory, armoury, inventory
a collection of resources

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

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