imaginaryとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmædʒɪn(ə)ɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmædʒɪˌnɛɹi/

形容詞

imaginary (comparative more imaginary, superlative most imaginary)

1. Existing only in the imagination.

   Unicorns are imaginary.

   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, OCLC 79426475, Act I, scene iv, page 1:

     Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?

2. (mathematics, of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}}$ (called imaginary unit).

同意語

• (existing only in the imagination): all in one's head

派生語

名詞

imaginary (複数形 imaginaries)

1. Imagination; fancy. [from 16th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 324:

     By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.

   • 2015, Adrian Daub, Elisabeth Krimmer, Goethe Yearbook 22, page 96:

     While Oil, its extraction, and the global petroculture and its role in transforming the planet's climate undoubtedly play a crucial role in the Antropocene imaginary — to the extent that petrofiction has been construed not just a a genre but as a periodizing gesture of "petromodernity" — it would hamper both the imagination and the root of petrofiction to restrict the range of this term to the encounter with fossil fuels within a carbon imaginary.

2. (mathematics) An imaginary quantity. [from 18th c.]
3. (sociology) 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.

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