Definition of "imagined" []

• Conceived or envisioned in the mind. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of imagin. (verb)
• Simple past tense and past participle of imagine. (verb)

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• "Sometimes the imagined is as telling as the fact-based."
• "This establishment of the party-state, or "uncivil society" (by contrast with what he identifies as the imagined or idealized "civil society" celebrated by dissident and Western intellectuals at the time), "brought down its own system.""
• "If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined "progress.""