Imagery (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural im·age·ries.
  1. the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.
  2. pictorial images, as in works of art.
  3. the use of rhetorical images.
  4. figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively.
  5. mental images collectively, especially those produced by the action of imagination.
noun plural -ries
  1. figurative or descriptive language in a literary work
  2. images collectively
  3. psychol
    • the materials or general processes of the imagination
    • the characteristic kind of mental images formed by a particular individual
  4. the presentation of objects reproduced photographically (by infrared or electronic means) as prints or electronic displays
Imagery (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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