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MENTAL IMAGERY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does mental imagery mean?

• MENTAL IMAGERY (noun)
The noun MENTAL IMAGERY has 1 sense:

1. the ability to form mental images of things or events

Familiarity information: MENTAL IMAGERY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MENTAL IMAGERY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The ability to form mental images of things or events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

imagery; imaging; mental imagery; imagination

Context example:

he could still hear her in his imagination

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)

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