imagerial
ɪdʒ 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.
Psychology. mental images collectively, especially those produced by the action of imagination.
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| —n , pl -ries | |
| 1. | figurative or descriptive language in a literary work |
| 2. | images collectively |
| 3. | psychol |
| a. the materials or general processes of the imagination | |
| b. image See also imagination the characteristic kind of mental images formed by a particular individual | |
| 4. | military the presentation of objects reproduced photographically (by infrared or electronic means) as prints or electronic displays |
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Word Origin & History
imagery
early 14c., from O.Fr. imagerie (13c.), from imagier, from image (see image).
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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
imagery definition
The mental pictures created by a piece of writing: “The imagery of “The Waste Land” — crumbling towers, dried-up wells, toppled tombstones — conveys the author's sense of a civilization in decay.”
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Imagery definition
only in the phrase "chambers of his imagery" (Ezek. 8:12). (See CHAMBER.)
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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