mental representation

Questions about mental representation

What does mental representation mean?

mental representation means "a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image".

What is another word for mental representation?

Close synonyms include representation, internal representation. 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 representation a common word?

mental representation 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.