different between imaginary vs apparitional
imaginary
English
Etymology
From Middle French imaginaire, from Latin im?gin?rius (“relating to images, fancied”), from im?g?.
The mathematical sense derives from René Descartes's use (of the French imaginaire) in 1637, La Geometrie, to ridicule the notion of regarding non-real roots of polynomials as numbers. Although Descartes' usage was derogatory, the designation stuck even after the concept gained acceptance in the 18th century.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??mæd??n(?)?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??mæd???n??i/
Adjective
imaginary (comparative more imaginary, superlative most imaginary)
- Existing only in the imagination.
- Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
- (mathematics, of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of (called imaginary unit).
Synonyms
- (existing only in the imagination): all in one's head
Derived terms
- imaginarily
- imaginariness
- imaginarity
- imaginary number
- imaginary unit
Translations
Noun
imaginary (plural imaginaries)
- Imagination; fancy. [from 16th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 324:
- By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 324:
- (mathematics) An imaginary quantity. [from 18th c.]
- (sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
References
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apparitional
English
Etymology
apparition +? -al
Adjective
apparitional (comparative more apparitional, superlative most apparitional)
- (religion, forteana) Of or pertaining to an apparition or apparitions
- Synonyms: ghostly, immaterial, spectral
- 1908, Henry James, "The Jolly Corner," ch. 2,
- People enough, first and last, had been in terror of apparitions, but who had ever before so turned the tables and become himself, in the apparitional world, an incalculable terror?
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:ghostly
Translations
Further reading
- apparitional in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “apparitional” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- apparitional at OneLook Dictionary Search
apparitional From the web:
- what does apparition mean
- meaning apparition
- what does the word apparition mean
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