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noun
The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Imitation work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Images in general, or en masse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
the ability to form mental images of things or events
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: imagination, imaging, mental imagery
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Broader terms: representational process
Narrower terms: mind's eye, vision, picturing, envisioning, dream, dreaming, chimera, chimaera, evocation, pretense, pretence, make-believe
History
From Middle English ymagerie, from Middle French imagerie; equivalent to image + -ry.
Across languages
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