noun
pl. -·ries- Now Rare images generally; esp., statues
- mental images, as produced by memory or imagination
- descriptions and figures of speech
- imaging
Origin of imagery
Middle English imagerie from Old French
Images created in your mind is imagery.
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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imagery
noun
pl. im·age·ries- A set of mental pictures or images.
- a. The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.b. The use of expressive or evocative images in art, literature, or music.c. A group or body of related images, as in a painting or poem.
- a. Representative images, particularly statues or icons.b. The art of making such images.
- Psychology A technique in behavior therapy in which the patient uses pleasant fantasies to relax and counteract anxiety.
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Noun
(plural imageries)
- The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
- Imitation work.
- Images in general, or en masse.
- (figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
- The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
- Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
Origin
From Old French imagerie
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imagery - Medical Definition
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pl. imageriesPsychology A technique in behavior therapy in which the patient uses pleasant fantasies to relax and counteract anxiety.
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Sentence Examples
- Bathymetry and sidescan sonar imagery together reveal a slow-spreading ridge segment that has a large composite volcanic plateau at its center.
- It is true, the popular imagery is unworthy of such a god.
- Devices of rhetoric are used to bring imagery to writing.
- 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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