The creation of something in the mind.
synoniemen: conception, design, innovation, invention.
Roget 451:
thought;
exercitation of the intellect†,
exercise of the intellect;
intellection;
reflection,
cogitation,
consideration,
meditation,
study,
lucubration,
speculation,
deliberation,
pondering;
head work,
brain work;
cerebration;
deep reflection;
close study,
application
etc.
(attention)
457.
abstract thought,
abstraction contemplation,
musing;
brown study
etc.
(inattention)
458;
reverie,
Platonism;
depth of thought,
workings of the mind,
thoughts,
inmost thoughts;
self-counsel self-communing,
self-consultation;
philosophy of the Absolute,
philosophy of the Academy,
philosophy of the Garden,
philosophy of the lyceum,
philosophy of the Porch.
association of thought,
succession of thought,
flow of thought,
train of thought,
current of thought,
association of ideas,
succession of ideas,
flow of ideas,
train of ideas,
current of ideas.
after thought,
mature thought;
reconsideration,
second thoughts;
retrospection
etc.
(memory)
505;
excogitation†;
examination
etc.
(inquiry)
461;
invention
etc.
(imagination)
515.
thoughtfulness
etc.
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Roget 515:
imagination;
originality;
invention;
fancy;
inspiration;
verve.
warm imagination,
heated imagination,
excited imagination,
sanguine imagination,
ardent imagination,
fiery imagination,
boiling imagination,
wild imagination,
bold imagination,
daring imagination,
playful imagination,
lively imagination,
fertile imagination,
fancy.
mind's eye;"
such stuff as dreams are made of"
[Tempest].
ideality,
idealism;
romanticism,
utopianism,
castle-building.
dreaming;
phrensy†,
frenzy;
ecstasy,
extasy†;
calenture
etc.
(delirium)
503†;
reverie,
trance;
day dream,
golden dream;
somnambulism.
conception,
Vorstellung [G.],
excogitation†,
a fine frenzy;"
cloudland†,
dreamland;
flight of fancy,
fumes of fancy;
thick coming fancies"
[Macbeth];
creation of the brain,
coinage of the brain;
imagery.
conceit,
maggot,
figment,
myth,
dream,
vision,
shadow,
chimera;
phantasm,
phantasy;
fantasy,
fancy;
whim,
whimsey†,
whimsy;
vagary,
rhapsody,
romance,
gest†,
geste†,
extravaganza;
air drawn dagger,
bugbear,
nightmare.
flying Dutchman,
great sea serpent,
man in the moon,
castle in the air,
pipe dream,
pie-in-the-sky,
chateau en Espagne [Fr.];
Utopia,
Atlantis†,
happy valley,
millennium,
fairyland;
land of Prester John,
kindgom of Micomicon;
work of fiction
etc.
(novel)
594;
Arabian nights†;
le pot au lait [Fr.];
dream of Alnashar
etc.
(hope)
858†.
illusion
etc.
(error)
495;
phantom
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443;
Fata Morgana
etc.
(ignis fatuus) [Lat.]
423;
vapor
etc.
(cloud)
353;
stretch of the imagination
etc.
(exaggeration)
549;
mythogenesis†.
idealist,
romanticist,
visionary;
mopus†;
romancer,
dreamer;
somnambulist;
rhapsodist
etc.
(fanatic)
504;
castle-buildier,
fanciful projector.
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