imaging

1. 1.

   the ability to form mental images of things or events

   “he could still hear her in his imagination”

   Synonymsimaginationimagerymental imagery

   Broaderrepresentational process

   Narrowermind's eyevisionpicturingdreamchimeraevocationpretense
2. 2.

   (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body

   Synonymstomography

   Broaderpictorial representation

   NarrowerX-rayingsonographypositron emission tomographymagnetic resonance imagingradioscopy

   medicine

Other forms of imaging

plural

imagings·

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 imaging

What does imaging mean?

imaging means "the ability to form mental images of things or events". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in imaging?

imaging has 3 syllables: im-a-ging. The stress falls on "im". In IPA it is /ˈɪmɪdʒɪŋ/.

What is another word for imaging?

Close synonyms include imagination, imagery, mental imagery, tomography. 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 imaging a common word?

imaging 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.