imagery
noun/ˈɪmɪd͡ʒɹi/ · /-ədʒɹi/
Etymology From Middle English ymagerie, from Middle French imagerie; equivalent to image + -ry.
1
The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
2
Imitation work.
3
Images in general, or en masse.
4
Figuratively Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
5
The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
6
Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
- Derived terms
- afterimagery, imagery rescripting, microimagery, neuroimagery, orthoimagery, phosphoimagery