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MENTAL IMAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An iconic mental representation
Example:
her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
Synonyms:
image; mental image
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mental image" is a kind of...):
internal representation; mental representation; representation (a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental image"):
imagination image; thought-image (a mental image produced by the imagination)
memory image (a mental image of something previously experienced)
visual image; visualisation; visualization (a mental image that is similar to a visual perception)
impression; mental picture; picture (a clear and telling mental image)
auditory image (a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception)
