Engineering things out of thin air. A conjunction between the words imaginary and engineering. Basically used to describe how people first say that something will be made or done, then actually get down to doing it.
A classic example of imagineering in action is how America is "dealing" with its financial crisis by just making more money without logically thinking about all of the consequences that will follow. Tsk tsk America, you be fuckin up.
to both imagine and create something that is new. The new creation must be tangible though which is in fact the key point of this term.
Credit to Lyndon Barends who imagineered the term
the creation of a container in which lightning is stored (just an "off the cuff" idea but yet to create!)
in fact all inventions where imagineered :-)
Imagineering is fused from the words Imagination and Engineering.
The first referenced use of the word Imagineering comes from an article dated 2nd May 1947 in the Portsmouth (Ohio) Times. The article describes the work of a top-notch commercial illustrator Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974)
imagineering is what we do when we use our imagination in the non phicisal world to engineer something tangible in the phisical world