imagery

Plural: imageries

Noun

• Visually descriptive or figurative language; mental images.
• the ability to form mental images of things or events
• The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
• Imitation work.
• Images in general, or en masse.
• Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
• The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
• Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

Examples

• His game involved vivid imagery, painting a picture of victory with every word.

Synonyms

imagination, imaging, mental imagery