imagery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the ability to form mental images of things or events

2. 2
   noun

   The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.

3. 3
   noun

   Imitation work.

4. 4
   noun

   Images in general, or en masse.

5. 5
   noun

   Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

6. 6
   noun

   The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

7. 7
   noun

   Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

Etymology

From Middle English ymagerie, from Middle French imagerie; equivalent to image + -ry.