Im·ag·i·na·tive a.
1. Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.
In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitutes an important element. --Mure.
2. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. --Coleridge.
3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.]
-- Im*ag*i*na*tive*ly, adv. -- Im*ag*i*na*tive*ness, n.
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imaginativeness
n : 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" [syn: imagination,
vision]