Imaginary can refer to:
- Imaginary (sociology), a concept in sociology
- The Imaginary (psychoanalysis), a concept by Jacques Lacan
- Imaginary number, a concept in mathematics
- Imaginary time, a concept in physics
- Imagination, a mental faculty
- Object of the mind, an object of the imagination
- Imaginary friend
- Imaginary Records, a record label
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Famous quotes containing the word imaginary:
“Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th’ imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)