Imagery meaning

ĭm'ĭj-rē

A set of mental pictures or images.

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The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.

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The definition of imagery is pictures created by the mind or from memory.

An example of imagery is a person remembering what their first pet looked like.

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The use of expressive or evocative images in art, literature, or music.

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A technique in behavior therapy in which the patient uses pleasant fantasies to relax and counteract anxiety.

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A group or body of related images, as in a painting or poem.

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Representative images, particularly statues or icons.

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The art of making such images.

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Images generally; esp., statues.

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Mental images, as produced by memory or imagination.

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Descriptions and figures of speech.

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A technique in behavior therapy in which the patient uses pleasant fantasies to relax and counteract anxiety.

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The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.

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Images in general, or en masse.

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(figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

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The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

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Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

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From Old French imagerie

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