fancy vs imagination
imagination vs fancyfancy and imagination both are nouns.
fancy is an adjective but imagination is not an adjective.
fancy is a verb but imagination is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fancy | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| imagination | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
imagination is a hypernym of
fancy; that is, imagination is a
word with a broader meaning than fancy:
- fancy: imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
- imagination: the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
Other hypernyms of fancy include
imaginativeness, vision.
| fancy (noun) | imagination (noun) |
|---|---|
| imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses |
| something many people believe that is false | the ability to form mental images of things or events |
| a predisposition to like something | the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems |
| fancy (adjective) | imagination (adjective) |
|---|---|
| not plain; decorative or ornamented |
| fancy (verb) | imagination (verb) |
|---|---|
| imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | |
| have a fancy or particular liking or desire for |
Words related to "fancy"
- adorned
- aureate
- baroque
- battlemented
- bubble
- busy
- castellated
- castled
- churrigueresco
- churrigueresque
- conceive of
- crackle
- crenelated
- damascene
- damask
- decorated
- desire
- dressy
- elaborate
- embattled
- envisage
- envision
- fancier
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fantasy
- figure
- flamboyant
- florid
- fondness
- fussy
- go for
- ideate
- ignis fatuus
- illusion
- image
- imagination
- imaginativeness
- imagine
- lacelike
- lacy
- like
- liking
- luxuriant
- misconception
- partiality
- phantasy
- picture
- plain
- project
- puff
- puffed
- realise
- realize
- rhetorical
- rococo
- see
- take to
- understand
- vermicular
- vermiculate
- vermiculated
- vision
- visualise
- visualize
- want
- will-o'-the-wisp
- wishful thinking
Words related to "imagination"
- armory
- armoury
- chimaera
- chimera
- cleverness
- creative thinking
- creativeness
- creativity
- dream
- dreaming
- envisioning
- evocation
- fancy
- fantasy
- fictitious place
- imagery
- imaginary being
- imaginary creature
- imaginary place
- imaginativeness
- imagine
- imaging
- ingeniousness
- ingenuity
- inventiveness
- inventory
- make-believe
- mental imagery
- mind's eye
- mythical place
- phantasy
- picturing
- pretence
- pretense
- representational process
- resource
- resourcefulness
- vision
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