'Imagery' definitions:
Definition of 'imagery'
(from WordNet)
noun
The ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" [syn: imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery]
Definition of 'Imagery'
From: GCIDE
- Imagery \Im"age*ry\ ([i^]m"[asl]j*r[y^]; 277), n. [OE. imagerie, F. imagerie.]
- 1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance. [1913 Webster]
- What can thy imagery of sorrow mean? --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. [1913 Webster]
- The imagery of a melancholic fancy. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. [1913 Webster]
- I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'imagery'
From: Easton
- Imagery only in the phrase "chambers of his imagery" (Ezek. 8:12). (See CHAMBER.)
Synonyms of 'imagery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allusion,
- alphabet,
- apparition,
- art,
- asiaticism,
- blueprint,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- cameo,
- catalog,
- cataloging,
- character,
- character sketch,
- charactering,
- characterization,
- chart,
- chimera,
- choreography,
- concept,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- conventional representation,
- dance notation,
- delineation,
- delirium,
- demonstration,
- depiction,
- depictment,
- description,
- details,
- device,
- diagram,
- drama,
- drawing,
- eidetic image,
- eidolon,
- envisaging,
- envisioning,
- euphuism,
- evocation,
- exemplification,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- figuration,
- figurative language,
- figurativeness,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- floridity,
- flourish,
- flower,
- flowery style,
- graphic account,
- hallucination,
- hieroglyphic,
- iconography,
- ideogram,
- idle fancy,
- illusion,
- illustration,
- image,
- imagery study,
- imagination,
- imaging,
- imagining,
- imagism,
- imagistic poetry,
- impression,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- itemization,
- letter,
- lifelike image,
- limning,
- logogram,
- logograph,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- manner of speaking,
- map,
- mental image,
- mental picture,
- mental representation,
- musical notation,
- myth,
- nonliterality,
- nonliteralness,
- notation,
- objectification,
- ornament,
- particularization,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- photograph,
- pictogram,
- picture,
- picturing,
- picturization,
- plan,
- poetic imagery,
- portrait,
- portraiture,
- portrayal,
- prefigurement,
- presentment,
- printing,
- profile,
- projection,
- purple passage,
- realization,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- representation,
- romance,
- schema,
- score,
- script,
- sick fancy,
- sketch,
- specification,
- syllabary,
- symbol,
- symbolism,
- tablature,
- thick-coming fancies,
- trip,
- trope,
- turn of expression,
- vapor,
- vignette,
- vision,
- visual image,
- visualization,
- vivid description,
- Vorstellung,
- way of speaking,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- word painting,
- word-painting,
- writing