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imagination vs make-believe

make-believe vs imagination

imagination and make-believe both are nouns.

imagination is not an adjective while make-believe is an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
imagination Yes No No No
make-believe Yes Yes No No
As nouns, make-believe is a hyponym of imagination; that is, make-believe is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than imagination:
  • imagination: the ability to form mental images of things or events
  • make-believe: imaginative intellectual play
Other hyponyms of imagination include mind's eye, vision, envisioning, picturing, dream, dreaming, chimaera, chimera, evocation, pretence, pretense.
imagination (noun) make-believe (noun)
the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses the enactment of a pretense
the ability to form mental images of things or events imaginative intellectual play
the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
imagination (adjective) make-believe (adjective)
imagined as in a play
Difference between imagination and make-believe

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