English noun: mental imagery | |||
| 1. | mental imagery (cognition) the ability to form mental images of things or events | ||
| Samples | He could still hear her in his imagination. | ||
| Synonyms | imagery, imagination, imaging | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | representational process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | chimaera, chimera, dream, dreaming, envisioning, evocation, make-believe, mind's eye, picturing, pretence, pretense, vision | ||