资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Imaginative \Im*ag"i*na*tive\, a. [F. imaginatif.]
   1. Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination,
      generally in the highest sense of the word.

            In all the higher departments of imaginative art,
            nature still constitutes an important element.
                                                  --Mure.

   2. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having
      a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.

            Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very
            fanciful mind.                        --Coleridge.

   3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
      {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness}, n.

资料来源 : WordNet®

imaginativeness
     n : 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" [syn: {imagination},
          {vision}]