English > imagery: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The ability to form mental images of things or events. |
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| Synonyms | imagination, imaging, mental imagery |
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| Narrower | chimera, chimaera | A grotesque product of the imagination |
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| dream, dreaming | A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep / sleep |
| evocation | imaginative re-creation |
| mind's eye | The imaging of remembered or invented scenes |
| picturing, envisioning | visual imagery |
| pretense, pretence, make-believe | imaginative intellectual play |
| vision | A vivid mental image |
| Broader | representational process | Any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else |
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| Spanish | imagen mental, imagen, representación mental, representación |
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| Catalan | imatge mental, imatge, imatgeria, representació mental, representació |
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| Verbs | image | imagine |
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