imagery

1. 1.

   the ability to form mental images of things or events

   “he could still hear her in his imagination”

   Synonymsimaginationimagingmental imagery

   Broaderrepresentational process

   Narrowermind's eyevisionpicturingdreamchimeraevocationpretense

Other forms of imagery

plural

imageries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about imagery

What does imagery mean?

imagery means "the ability to form mental images of things or events".

How many syllables are in imagery?

imagery has 3 syllables: imag-e-ry. The stress falls on "imag". In IPA it is /ˈɪmədʒɹi/.

What is another word for imagery?

Close synonyms include imagination, imaging, mental imagery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imagery a common word?

imagery is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.