imaginary
adjective
existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied.
imaginaries
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pluralof imaginary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“We have to, as artists, find the courage to disrupt convention, practice the spreading of hope and cultivate new stories and imaginaries that challenge divisive binaries.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
“I love how he weaves in the African oceanic imaginaries, the long durée of African historical inter-relationships with the world, and with itself,” Owuor added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
It will be recollected that the expression number and the correlative epithet numerical were at the outset used in a wide sense, as extending to imaginaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
Of the world surrounding him which refused definitions he said, "because there is no image there is nothing except imaginaries."
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
These were found in the anharmonic ratio, a device leading to the liberation of synthetic geometry from metrical relations, and in involution, which yielded rigorous definitions of imaginaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
