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imaginary

/ɪˈmædʒɪn(ə)ɹi/
noun
  1. Imagination; fancy.

  2. An imaginary quantity.

  3. 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.

adjective
  1. Existing only in the imagination.

    "Santa Claus is imaginary."

  2. (of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.

Synonymsall in one's head

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