mental picture

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   a clear and telling mental image

   “he described his mental picture of his assailant”

   “he had no clear picture of himself or his world”

   “the events left a permanent impression in his mind”

   Synonymspictureimpression

   Broaderimage

Questions about mental picture

What does mental picture mean?

mental picture means "a clear and telling mental image".

What is another word for mental picture?

Close synonyms include picture, impression. 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 picture a common word?

mental picture 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.