(the ability to create) mental pictures of a person, situation etc that has not been experienced
power to create in one's mind
Cases of word usage
1) the academic subjects, areas of study, in which imagination and personal appreciation are more important than exact measurement and calculation (arts)
2) (of a person) led by imagination instead of reason and experience (fanciful)
3) to go or be beyond or outside the range of (human experience, reason, belief, imagination etc) (transcend)
4) not having, using, imagination (unimaginative)
5) existing only in the imagination and unlikely to happen; (of a person) having grand (and often impossible) (visionary)