"imaginal" meaning in English

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      "word": "imaginal disk"
    },
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      "word": "imaginal disc"
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      "word": "preimaginal"
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      "expansion": "From imagine + -al.",
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From imagine + -al.",
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      "expansion": "imaginal (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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              118,
              126
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          "ref": "1992, Spirited Women Book Company (publisher), At the Crossroads, page 48:",
          "text": "Ring sees both the NDE and UFOE as modern day shamanic initiations in which the journeyer (NDEer or UFOer) enters an \"imaginal\" reality, an alternative reality that coexists with physical reality and that is equally real.",
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        "Of or relating to the imagination, or to a mental image."
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          "image",
          "image"
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        "not-comparable"
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        "Of or relating to the insect imago."
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      "ipa": "/ɪˈmad͡ʒɪnəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ædʒɪnəl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "imaginal"
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    {
      "word": "imaginal disk"
    },
    {
      "word": "imaginal disc"
    },
    {
      "word": "preimaginal"
    },
    {
      "word": "subimaginal"
    }
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From imagine + -al.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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              118,
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        "Of or relating to the insect imago."
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  "word": "imaginal"
}