different between imagination vs cogitation

English

Etymology

From Middle English ymaginacioun, from Old French imaginacion, ymaginacion, from Latin im?gin?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæd???ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

imagination (countable and uncountable, plural imaginations)

1. The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
2. Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.

3. Creativity; resourcefulness.

4. A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.

   Synonyms: conception, notion, imagining

   • 1597, Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", Essays:

     And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

Synonyms

• (the representative power): creativity, fancy, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness

Translations

Further reading

• imagination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French imaginacion, borrowed from Latin im?gin?ti?, im?gin?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ma.?i.na.sj??/

Noun

imagination f (plural imaginations)

1. (countable and uncountable) imagination

Related terms

• image
• imaginer
• imaginatif

Further reading

• “imagination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• ymagination

Etymology

From Old French imaginacion, borrowed from Latin im?gin?ti?.

Noun

imagination f (plural imaginations)

1. (countable and uncountable) imagination
2. thought; reflection; idea

Related terms

• imaginer

Descendants

• French: imagination

English

Etymology

Latinism, likely a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cogitatio, cogitationis, possibly influenced by or displacing an earlier doublet of cogitacion inherited from Middle English cogitacioun, from an Old French cogitaciun, from Vulgar Latin c?git?ti?, c?git?ti?nem; compare Middle French cogitatiun, French cogitation. All ultimately from verbal construction c?git?tus +? -i?, from the perfect passive participle of Latin c?git? (“to turn over in the mind; think, consider, ponder, meditate”), frequentative verb from con- (“together, with”) +? agit? (“to put in constant motion, drive at something; devise, plot, contrive”), root from Proto-Italic *ag? (“to drive, impel”) from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?-.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?j'?-t??sh?n, kä'j?-t??sh?n, k?j'?-t??sh?n
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?d??.??te?.??n/, /?k??.d????te?.??n/, /?k??d??.??te?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?d??.??te?.??n?/, /?k??.d????te?.??n?/, /?ko?d??.??te?.??n?/

Noun

cogitation (countable and uncountable, plural cogitations)

1. (uncountable) The process of cogitating; contemplation, deliberation, reflection, meditation.
2. (countable) A carefully considered thought, idea, notion.

Quotations

Related terms

• cogitable
• cogitate
• cogitative

Translations

Further reading

• cogitation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cogitation”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Etymology

Latinate learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cogitatio, cogitationis (“act of pondering; reflection”), supplanting or reshaping variant forms from Middle French cogitatiun, Old French cogitaciun, cogitacion, from Vulgar Latin c?git?ti?, c?git?ti?nem; compare Middle English cogitacioun, English cogitation. Ultimately from Latin c?git? (“to turn over in the mind; think, consider, ponder, meditate”) from con- (“together, with”) +? agit? (“to put in constant motion, drive at something; devise, plot, contrive”), verbal root from Proto-Italic *ag? (“to drive, impel”) from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.?i.ta.sj??/

Noun

cogitation f (plural cogitations)

1. cogitation

Further reading

• “cogitation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).