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imagining

imagining noun: something imagined; a figment of the imagination. Also the present participle and gerund of imagine.

Noun

imagining (plural imaginings)

  1. Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.
    • Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love […]1977, Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard in Izitso, Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens
    • Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings.2006, Jessica Page Morrell, Between the Lines, Writer's Digest Books, page 15

Also used as

imagining is also the present participle and gerund of imagine.

imagining is also the present participle and gerund of imagin.

imagining meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Odia and Nepali

imagining in Tamil

கற்பனை செய்தல்

imagining in Malayalam

സങ്കൽപ്പിക്കൽ, സങ്കൽപ്പിക്കുന്നു

imagining in Odia

କଳ୍ପନା କରୁଅଛି

imagining in Nepali

कल्पना गर्दै

Forms of imagining

pluralimaginings

Questions about imagining

What does imagining mean?
Imagining means something imagined; a figment of the imagination.
What is imagining in Tamil?
Imagining in Tamil is கற்பனை செய்தல். See Imagining meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is imagining?
Imagining is a noun.
What is the plural of imagining?
The plural of imagining is imaginings.

Words near imagining in the dictionary

  1. imagings
  2. imaginified
  3. imaginifies
  4. imaginify
  5. imaginifying
  6. imagining
  7. imaginings
  8. imaginism
  9. imaginist
  10. imaginists
  11. imaginitis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imagining (page history and authors); imagining (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); imagining (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); imagining (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); imagining (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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