mental image

Questions about mental image

What does mental image mean?

mental image means "an iconic mental representation".

What is another word for mental image?

Close synonyms include image. 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 mental image a common word?

mental image is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.