imagining

Etymology

noun

1. Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.
   1977, Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard in Izitso, Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens, Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love […]
   Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings. 2006, Jessica Page Morrell, Between the Lines, Writer's Digest Books, page 15
   Despite my imaginings, disaster was denied over the deep waters of the Hawkesbury. July 27 2022, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Bridge disasters that spanned an Empire”, in RAIL, number 962, page 60

verb

1. present participle and gerund of imagine
2. present participle and gerund of imagin