English > mental imagery: 1 sense > noun 1, cognitionMeaning | The ability to form mental images of things or events. |
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Synonyms | imagination, imaging, 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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