genius vs imagination

genius

noun
  • Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process. 

  • Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc. 

  • Extraordinary mental capacity. 

  • The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person. 

adj
  • Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original. 

imagination

noun
  • Creativity; resourcefulness. 

  • Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing. 

  • The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images. 

  • A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined. 

How often have the words genius and imagination occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )