1. A fanciful mental image, typically one on which a person often dwells and which reflects their
conscious or unconscious wishes.
2. The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not
present to the senses.
3. A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the
creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
4. The general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts.
5. The world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional
idea of them.
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