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MENTAL IMAGERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ability to form mental images of things or events
Example:
he could still hear her in his imagination
Synonyms:
imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mental imagery" is a kind of...):
representational process (any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental imagery"):
mind's eye (the imaging of remembered or invented scenes)
vision (a vivid mental image)
envisioning; picturing (visual imagery)
dream; dreaming (a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep)
chimaera; chimera (a grotesque product of the imagination)
evocation (imaginative re-creation)
make-believe; pretence; pretense (imaginative intellectual play)
