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English noun: mental imagery

1. mental imagery (cognition) the ability to form mental images of things or events


SamplesHe could still hear her in his imagination.


Synonymsimagery, imagination, imaging


Broader (hypernym)representational process


Narrower (hyponym)chimaera, chimera, dream, dreaming, envisioning, evocation, make-believe, mind's eye, picturing, pretence, pretense, vision









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