Definition of "mental picture" []

• A clear and telling mental image (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "He began to form a not unpleasing mental picture of his appearance, something somewhere between the portraits of George Washington and a vivid memory of Miss Julia Marlowe at a matinee of "Twelfth Night.""
• "She didn't like the mental picture of Davo Fillanaser's body stretched out, uninhabited, on a couch."
• "He inhaled the scent of fruit and Irish Spring, and was suddenly assaulted by a vivid mental picture of her in his shower, naked except for suds."