MENTAL IMAGERY

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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)

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)