imagery

Meanings

Plural: imageries

Noun

• the ability to form mental images of things or events
• The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
• Imitation work.
• Images in general, or en masse.
• 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.

Synonyms

imagination, imaging, mental imagery