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imagery - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A set of mental pictures or images.
- noun The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
- noun The use of expressive or evocative images in art, literature, or music.
- noun A group or body of related images, as in a painting or poem.
- noun Representative images, particularly statues or icons.
- noun The art of making such images.
- noun Psychology A technique in behavior therapy in which the patient uses pleasant fantasies to relax and counteract anxiety.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Representation in an image or by images; formation of images by art; also, images collectively.
- noun A type or general likeness; similitude.
- noun Descriptive representation; exhibition of ideal images to the mind; figurative illustration.
- noun Mental representation; formation of images in the mind; fanciful or fantastic imagination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.
- noun Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
- noun The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
- noun Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The work of one who makes
images or visible representation of objects. - noun
Imitation work. - noun Images
in general , oren masse . - noun figuratively Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
- noun The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas;
imaginary phantasms . - noun
Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ability to form mental images of things or events
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Although such studies are still vastly outnumbered by studies of visual imagery, ˜imagery™ has become the generally accepted term amongst cognitive scientists for quasi-perceptual experience in any sense mode (or any combination of sense modes).
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The change in imagery is significant, in that the Old
Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos 2005
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They know they are lonely together, even when conjoined, and that this imagery is a big part of that loneliness.
Naomi Wolf: Porn Turns Men Off The Real Thing | Disinformation 2008
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And then what I call imagery exercises at the same time, thinking about something that calms you.
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Well, although this imagery is a little over the top, these concepts are working against are communities in terms of waste management.
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"I just find it disgusting that this kind of imagery is being used to attack the only way to get to universal coverage."
Clinton campaign call: Obama ad evokes Nazis marching on Skokie 2008
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"I just find it disgusting that this kind of imagery is being used to attack the only way to get to universal coverage."
Clinton campaign call: Obama ad evokes Nazis marching on Skokie 2008
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The imagery is innovative and pleasing to the eye, the title and cast bold and prominent and the tag lines are guaranteed to make you crack an innocent smile.
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What a bunch of lies and crap that thing was just in imagery alone.
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Pat Oliphant's outlandish and offensive use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic.
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synonyms (153)
Words with the same meaning
- Vorstellung
- allusion
- alphabet
- apparition
- appearance
- art
- asiaticism
- blueprint
- brainchild
- bubble
- cameo
- catalog
- cataloging
- character
- character sketch
- charactering
- characterization
- chart
- chimera
- choreography
- concept
- conception
- conceptualization
- conventional representation
- dance notation
- delineation
- delirium
- demonstration
- depiction
- depictment
- description
- details
- device
- diagram
- drama
- drawing
- eidetic image
- eidolon
- engraving
- envisaging
- envisioning
- euphuism
- evocation
- exemplification
- fancy
- fantasque
- fantasy
- fiction
- figment
- figuration
- figurative language
- figurativeness
- figure
- figure of speech
- figures
- floridity
- flourish
- flower
- flowery style
- graphic account
- hallucination
- hieroglyphic
- iconography
- ideogram
- idle fancy
- illusion
- illustration
- image
- imagery study
- images
- imagination
- imaginations
- imaging
- imagining
- imagism
- imagistic poetry
- imitation
- impression
- insubstantial image
- invention
- itemization
- letter
- lifelike image
- limning
- logogram
- logograph
- maggot
- make-believe
- manner of speaking
- map
- mental image
- mental picture
- mental representation
- musical notation
- myth
- nonliterality
- nonliteralness
- notation
- objectification
- ornament
- paintings
- particularization
- phantasm
- phantom
- photograph
- pictogram
- picture
- picturing
- picturization
- plan
- poetic imagery
- portrait
- portraiture
- portrayal
- prefigurement
- presentment
- printing
- profile
- projection
- purple passage
- realization
- rendering
- rendition
- representation
- romance
- schema
- score
- script
- sick fancy
- sketch
- specification
- statuary
- syllabary
- symbol
- symbolism
- tablature
- thick-coming fancies
- trip
- trope
- turn of expression
- vapor
- vignette
- vision
- visual image
- visualization
- vivid description
- way of speaking
- whim
- whimsy
- wildest dreams
- word painting
- word-painting
- writing
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