imaginary

noun

Imagination; fancy.

(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.

(mathematics, countable) An imaginary number.

adjective

Existing only in the imagination.

Roots

imagoimagin- · Latin · image, likeness

Synonyms for imaginary

fancifuladj notionaladj fictiveadj fictitiousadj fictionaladj chimericaladj unrealadj phantasmagoricadj illusionaryadj imaginedv illusoryadj phantasmicadj supposititiousadj illusionaladj hypotheticaladj mythicaladj fanciedadj phantasmaladj

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