Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for imagination

Synonyms for imagination: vision and resource. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun

The 2 synonyms for imagination

Interchangeable with imagination in this sense

Audited under imagination's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one imagination carries in that sense.

visionnoun, in the sense "the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name imagination as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

resourceresource is a noun in the sense "the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems"

The first group is filed under imagination's own sense. The second reaches imagination from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsThinking and knowing

the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

Imagination reveals what the world could be.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

vision

Same sentence, swapped: Vision reveals what the world could be.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

resource
design
genius

Where imagination turns up in the game

imagination is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play imagination

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so imagination reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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languagenounspeechthe mental faculty or power of vocal communicationFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line leadnountrackevidence pointing to a possible solutionFoothillsHas a reason line lineverb, noundrawmake a mark or lines on a surfaceFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line lostadjectiveconfusedperplexed by many conflicting situations or statementsFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line compareverbequateconsider or describe as similar, equal, or analogousHigh CampHas a reason line compassnounreachthe limit of capabilityTreeline complexnouncompositea conceptual whole made up of complicated and related partsRidgelineHas a reason line envynounjealousya feeling of discontented longing aroused by someone else's possessions or qualitiesFoothillsHas a reason line

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