English noun: mental image | |||
1. | mental image (cognition) an iconic mental representation | ||
Samples | Her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate. | ||
Synonyms | image | ||
Broader (hypernym) | internal representation, mental representation, representation | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | auditory image, imagination image, impression, memory image, mental picture, picture, thought-image, visual image, visualisation, visualization | ||