wyimaginowany

Wyimaginowany is a Polish adjective meaning created by imagination; existing only in the mind or as a product of fantasy rather than in reality. It describes people, objects, events, or scenarios that do not have empirical existence. The term is commonly used in literature, everyday speech, and critical discourse to convey that something is fictional or fanciful rather than real.

The word derives from imagination-related roots with the prefix wy-, which in Polish often signals that something is drawn out of the mind or fabricated. As an adjective, it agrees with gender and number (wyimaginowany, wyimaginowana, wyimaginowane; wyimaginowani, wyimaginowane, wyimaginowane). It is distinct from wyobrażony, which emphasizes a mental image, and from fikcyjny, which denotes something belonging to fiction.

In use, wyimaginowany frequently describes imagined friends, plans, worlds, or stories. It can express whimsy or critique, depending on context. In mathematics, the term for an imaginary number is typically urojoną (liczba urojona), so wyimaginowany is not the standard technical term there, though it can appear in non-technical language to mean similarly “not real.”

Examples include: wyimaginowany przyjaciel (an imaginary friend), wyimaginowana historia (a fictional tale), wyimaginowane scenariusze (imagined scenarios). The concept is common in child development, literature, film, and casual speech as a way to distinguish imagined content from observable reality.