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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.
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dreamland
English
Etymology
From dream +? land.
Noun
dreamland (countable and uncountable, plural dreamlands)
- An imaginary world experienced while dreaming.
- An imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic; a fantasy.
Synonyms
- (imaginary world experienced while dreaming): slumberland
Translations
See also
- dreamscape
- dreamworld
- fantasy land
- cloudland
- neverland
- slumberland
- storyland
Anagrams
- ladderman, raddleman
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