Definition of "imagery" []

• A set of mental pictures or images. (noun)
• The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. (noun)
• The use of expressive or evocative images in art, literature, or music. (noun)
• A group or body of related images, as in a painting or poem. (noun)
• Representative images, particularly statues or icons. (noun)

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• "Although such studies are still vastly outnumbered by studies of visual imagery, ˜imagery™ has become the generally accepted term amongst cognitive scientists for quasi-perceptual experience in any sense mode (or any combination of sense modes)."
• "The change in imagery is significant, in that the Old"
• "They know they are lonely together, even when conjoined, and that this imagery is a big part of that loneliness."