| fancy | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. fancy, fantasy, illusion, phantasy | something many people believe that is false.; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" |
| ~ misconception | an incorrect conception. |
| ~ bubble | an impracticable and illusory idea.; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble" |
| ~ ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wisp | an illusion that misleads. |
| ~ wishful thinking | the illusion that what you wish for is actually true. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. fancy | a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination. |
| ~ imagination, imaginativeness, vision | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" |
| n. (feeling) | 3. fancy, fondness, partiality | a predisposition to like something.; "he had a fondness for whiskey" |
| ~ liking | a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment.; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" |
| v. (creation) | 4. envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize | imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" |
| ~ realize, see, understand, realise | perceive (an idea or situation) mentally.; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" |
| ~ visualise, visualize | form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract.; "Mathematicians often visualize" |
| ~ conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" |
| v. (emotion) | 5. fancy, go for, take to | have a fancy or particular liking or desire for.; "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window" |
| ~ like | find enjoyable or agreeable.; "I like jogging"; "She likes to read Russian novels" |
| ~ desire, want | feel or have a desire for; want strongly.; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room" |
| adj. | 6. fancy | not plain; decorative or ornamented.; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes" |
| ~ adorned, decorated | provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction. |
| ~ aureate, florid, flamboyant | elaborately or excessively ornamented.; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" |
| ~ baroque, churrigueresco, churrigueresque | having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation.; "the building...frantically baroque" |
| ~ busy, fussy | overcrowded or cluttered with detail.; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design" |
| ~ dressy | in fancy clothing. |
| ~ crackle | having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware.; "a crackle glaze" |
| ~ damascene | (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals.; "a damascened sword" |
| ~ damask | having a woven pattern.; "damask table linens" |
| ~ elaborate, luxuriant | marked by complexity and richness of detail.; "an elaborate lace pattern" |
| ~ castellated, castled, battlemented, embattled | having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement.; "a crenelated molding" |
| ~ fanciful | having a curiously intricate quality.; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers" |
| ~ fantastic | extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance.; "Gaudi's fantastic architecture" |
| ~ lacelike, lacy | made of or resembling lace.; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf" |
| ~ puff, puffed | gathered for protruding fullness.; "puff sleeves" |
| ~ rococo | having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror" |
| ~ vermicular, vermiculated, vermiculate | decorated with wormlike tracery or markings.; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework" |
| ~ rhetorical | given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought.; "mere rhetorical frippery" |
| imagination | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. imagination, imaginativeness, vision | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" |
| ~ creative thinking, creativeness, creativity | the ability to create. |
| ~ fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place | a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings. |
| ~ fancy | a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination. |
| ~ fantasy, phantasy | imagination unrestricted by reality.; "a schoolgirl fantasy" |
| ~ dreaming, dream | imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake.; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" |
| ~ imaginary being, imaginary creature | a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events.; "he could still hear her in his imagination" |
| ~ representational process | any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else. |
| ~ mind's eye | the imaging of remembered or invented scenes.; "I could see her clearly in my mind's eye" |
| ~ vision | a vivid mental image.; "he had a vision of his own death" |
| ~ envisioning, picturing | visual imagery. |
| ~ dream, dreaming | a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep.; "I had a dream about you last night" |
| ~ chimaera, chimera | a grotesque product of the imagination. |
| ~ evocation | imaginative re-creation. |
| ~ make-believe, pretense, pretence | imaginative intellectual play. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. imagination, resource, resourcefulness | the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems.; "a man of resource" |
| ~ cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness | the power of creative imagination. |
| ~ armory, armoury, inventory | a collection of resources.; "he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer" |
| memory | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. memory | something that is remembered.; "search as he would, the memory was lost" |
| ~ reminiscence | a mental impression retained and recalled from the past. |
| ~ internal representation, mental representation, representation | a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image. |
| ~ recollection | something recalled to the mind. |
| ~ engram, memory trace | a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory. |
| ~ confabulation | (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered. |
| ~ screen memory | an imagined memory of a childhood experience; hides another memory of distressing significance. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. memory, remembering | the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" |
| ~ basic cognitive process | cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge. |
| ~ immediate memory, short-term memory, stm | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it. |
| ~ working memory | memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking. |
| ~ long-term memory, ltm | your general store of remembered information. |
| ~ retrieval | the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory.; "my retrieval of people's names is very poor" |
| ~ recollection, reminiscence, recall | the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).; "he has total recall of the episode" |
| ~ recognition, identification | the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering.; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer" |
| ~ connexion, association, connection | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.; "conditioning is a form of learning by association" |
| ~ retrospection | memory for experiences that are past.; "some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity | the power of retaining and recalling past experience.; "he had a good memory when he was younger" |
| ~ faculty, mental faculty, module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind. |
| ~ recollection, remembrance, anamnesis | the ability to recall past occurrences. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, storage, store | an electronic memory device.; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" |
| ~ computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically. |
| ~ computer hardware, hardware | (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system. |
| ~ memory device, storage device | a device that preserves information for retrieval. |
| ~ non-volatile storage, nonvolatile storage | computer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off. |
| ~ fixed storage, read-only memory, read-only storage, rom | (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed. |
| ~ real storage | the main memory in a virtual memory system. |
| ~ register | (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind. |
| ~ scratchpad | (computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information. |
| ~ virtual memory, virtual storage | (computer science) memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory; the addressable storage space available to the user of a computer system in which virtual addresses are mapped into real addresses. |
| ~ volatile storage | computer storage that is erased when the power is turned off. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. memory | the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes.; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory" |
| ~ cognitive psychology | an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes. |
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