imaginary being
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1. a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction (noun.person)
hypernym | : | imagination, imaginativeness, vision, |
definition | : | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses (noun.cognition) |
hyponym | : | hypothetical creature, |
definition | : | a creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | mythical being, |
definition | : | an imaginary being of myth or fable (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | giant, |
definition | : | an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | hobbit, |
definition | : | an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | mermaid, |
definition | : | half woman and half fish; lives in the sea (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | merman, |
definition | : | half man and half fish; lives in the sea (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | cadmus, |
definition | : | (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | monster, |
definition | : | an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | witch, |
definition | : | a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | psychopomp, |
definition | : | a conductor of souls to the afterworld (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | sylph, |
definition | : | an elemental being believed to inhabit the air (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | unicorn, |
definition | : | an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | death, |
definition | : | the personification of death (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gargantua, |
definition | : | a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | maxwell's demon, |
definition | : | an imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | martian, |
definition | : | imaginary people who live on the planet Mars (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | humpty dumpty, |
definition | : | an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jack frost, |
definition | : | a personification of frost or winter weather (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mammon, |
definition | : | (New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | tom thumb, |
definition | : | an imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb (noun.person) |
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