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Imagery definition

ĭmĭj-rē
imageries
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A set of mental pictures or images.
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Descriptions and figures of speech.
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(psychology) A technique in behavior therapy in which the patient uses pleasant fantasies to relax and counteract anxiety.
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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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(psychology) A technique in behavior therapy in which the patient uses pleasant fantasies to relax and counteract anxiety.
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The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
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The use of expressive or evocative images in art, literature, or music.
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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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The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
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Imitation work.
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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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(now rare) Images generally; esp., statues.
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Mental images, as produced by memory or imagination.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
imagery
Plural:
imageries

Origin of imagery

  • From Old French imagerie

    From Wiktionary

Imagery Sentence Examples

  • It is true, the popular imagery is unworthy of such a god.

  • Devices of rhetoric are used to bring imagery to writing.

  • Bathymetry and sidescan sonar imagery together reveal a slow-spreading ridge segment that has a large composite volcanic plateau at its center.

  • The idea that the earth is flat can easily be disproven thanks to both the modern laws of physics and satellite imagery.

  • He was commonly compared to Olympian Zeus, partly because of his serene and dignified bearing, partly by reason of the majestic roll of the thundering eloquence, with its bold poetical imagery, with which he held friend and foe spellbound.

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