VISUAL IMAGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does visual image mean?
• VISUAL IMAGE (noun)
The noun VISUAL IMAGE has 2 senses:
1. a mental image that is similar to a visual perception
2. a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system
Familiarity information: VISUAL IMAGE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VISUAL IMAGE (noun)
Meaning:
A mental image that is similar to a visual perception
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
visual image; visualisation; visualization
Hypernyms ("visual image" is a kind of...):
image; mental image (an iconic mental representation)
Meaning:
A percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
visual percept; visual image
Hypernyms ("visual image" is a kind of...):
percept; perception; perceptual experience (the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visual image"):
eye candy (visual images that are pleasing to see but are intellectually undemanding)
field; field of view (the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument))
sight (an instance of visual perception)
aspect; panorama; prospect; scene; view; vista (the visual percept of a region)
field of regard; field of vision; visual field (all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment)
