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Imaginate. A verb related to the act of imagining, another verb.

Imaginate, as per masturbate, meditate, assassinate, innovate or cogitate.

I struggled to get my head around this grammatical black hole. ‘Imagining’ is either a transitive or intransitive verb as would be ‘imaginate’.

It’s as though the verb ‘imaginate’ doesn’t exist because imagining is not seen as a routine task done the same way by many people and certainly not something that can be planned.

As per:

I am going to meditate
I am going to imaginate

Compare this to:

I am going to imagine …

The latter implies an intention to do a specific task which by common consensus can’t be planned ahead of time. Let’s call ‘imagine’ a transient or ephemeral verb. Which is why we don’t imaginate.

I do though.