"imaginal" meaning in English

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "imaginal disk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "imaginal disc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "imagine",
        "3": "-al"
      },
      "expansion": "imagine + -al",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From imagine + -al.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "imaginal (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "95 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -al",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "99 1",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to the imagination, or to a mental image."
      ],
      "id": "en-imaginal-en-adj-CUfLSloc",
      "links": [
        [
          "imagination",
          "imagination"
        ],
        [
          "image",
          "image"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to the insect imago."
      ],
      "id": "en-imaginal-en-adj--VLC8vp0",
      "links": [
        [
          "imago",
          "imago"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈmad͡ʒɪnəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ædʒɪnəl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "imaginal"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -al",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ædʒɪnəl",
    "Rhymes:English/ædʒɪnəl/3 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "imaginal disk"
    },
    {
      "word": "imaginal disc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "imagine",
        "3": "-al"
      },
      "expansion": "imagine + -al",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From imagine + -al.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "imaginal (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to the imagination, or to a mental image."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "imagination",
          "imagination"
        ],
        [
          "image",
          "image"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to the insect imago."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "imago",
          "imago"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈmad͡ʒɪnəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ædʒɪnəl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "imaginal"
}