Hypertext Webster Gateway: "imaginativeness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Imaginative \Im*ag"i*na*tive\, a. [F. imaginatif.]
1. Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination,
generally in the highest sense of the word.

In all the higher departments of imaginative art,
nature still constitutes an important element.
--Mure.

2. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having
a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very
fanciful mind. --Coleridge.

3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
{Im*ag"i*na*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

imaginativeness
n : the power of imagination; "popular imagination created a
world of demons" [syn: {imagination}, {vision}]

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