Imagery
['ɪmɪdʒ(ə)rɪ] or ['ɪmɪdʒəri]
Definition
(n.) The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.
(n.) Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
(n.) The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
(n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Phantasm, phantom, vision, dream, fanciful forms.[2]. Tropes, figures of speech, figurative language.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Poetry, fancy, illustration, metaphor, similitude, ANT: \r.\, Prose, statement,fact
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Examples
- Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. Plato. The Republic.
- On the other hand, Galton, after his classical study of mental imagery (1883), stated that scientific men, as a class, have feeble powers of visual representat ion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Professor Dilth ey has collected many other records of the hallucinatory clearness of the visual imagery of literary artists. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Triangles and rectangles cease to suggest meadows, or vineyards, or any definite imagery of that sort, and are discussed in their abstract relationship. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the sense of being accompanied by imagery all thinking is imaginative. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Many men and a yet larger number of women , and many boys and girls, declared that they habitually saw mental imagery, and that it was perfectly distinct to the m and full of color. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Does the bird's ability to recognize imply the possession of memory, or imagery? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The psyc hology of individuals and groups shows startling differences in the k ind and vividness of imagery. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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