imagery

[im·age·ry]

Picture this: imagery is a noun to describe the way things or ideas seem in your mind or in art or literature.

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The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

Noun
the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"


n.
The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

n.
Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

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

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


Imagery

Im"age*ry , n. [OE. imagerie, F. imagerie.] 1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak.
In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery.
2. Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
What can thy imagery of sorrow mean?
3. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
The imagery of a melancholic fancy.
4. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery.

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

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Usage Examples

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

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Other Usage Examples

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

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