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
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word imagery.
Examples
-
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).
-
The change in imagery is significant, in that the Old
Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos 2005
-
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
-
And then what I call imagery exercises at the same time, thinking about something that calms you.
-
Well, although this imagery is a little over the top, these concepts are working against are communities in terms of waste management.
-
"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
-
"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
-
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.
-
What a bunch of lies and crap that thing was just in imagery alone.
-
Pat Oliphant's outlandish and offensive use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.