mental imagery

Questions about mental imagery

What does mental imagery mean?

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

What is another word for mental imagery?

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

mental imagery 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.