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a. (context complex analysis English) Of a number, having real part equal to zero.
Usage examples of "purely imaginary".
For a teenager with no connections, if it wasn't actually mythical, it was still so unreachable as to be in effect purely imaginary.
If he put aside the frankly chilling possibility that both of them had somehow been manipulated to remember a purely imaginary relationshipa consideration which opened speculations about his own reality Paul did not even want to touchthen it left one likely possibility: they did know each other, but it had been obliterated from his memory, and from hers as well.
If he put aside the frankly chilling possibility that both of them had somehow been manipulated to remember a purely imaginary relationship-a consideration which opened speculations about his own reality Paul did not even want to touch-then it left one likely possibility: they did know each other, but it had been obliterated from his memory, and from hers as well.
And he who wishes to argue from this Canon that the effects of witchcraft, the infliction of disease or any sickness, are purely imaginary, utterly mistakes the tenor of the Canon, and errs most grossly.
Whether this or that supposed experience be purely imaginary, must be settled according to its own particular determinations, and through a comparison with the criteria of all real experience.
He felt a slight tingle as he did so (perhaps a purely imaginary one), but it quickly passed.