mental image

Noun

Meaning

an iconic mental representation

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

image remembrance daydream imago view memory idea concept picture angle representation aspect notion dream impression
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Antonyms

life fact evidence basis existence reality
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Hypernyms

representation mental representation internal representation

Hyponyms

picture impression visualization visualisation mental picture memory image

Examples

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. Michael Chabon

I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either. Antoni Tàpies

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. E. B. White

An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism. Aldo Leopold

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image. Roy H. Williams

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet. Mary Higgins Clark

Close letter words and terms

mental hygiene mental illness mental illness making one repeat actions mental imagery mental images mental imbalance