Imaginary
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"Imaginary gardens with real toads in them[...]" --Marianne Moore
"The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed." --Edgar Allan Poe, 1840 Book of Imaginary Beings (1957) by Jorge Luis Borges |
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Ancient Rome (1757) by Giovanni Paolo Panini, a real painting depicting imaginary paintings of actual Roman antiquities.
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Imaginary denotes existing only in the imagination. It derives from the Latin word imago and the term is connected to the fictitious and the fictional.
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See also
- Fantasy map
- Fictitious
- Fictional
- Imaginary friend
- Imaginary landscape
- Imaginary library
- Imaginary painting
- Imaginary portrait
- Imaginary gallery
- Imaginary world
- Imagination
- The Imaginary (psychoanalysis)
- Imaginary (sociology)
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