imagery

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 8.97 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
2. noun Imitation work.
3. noun Images in general, or en masse.
4. noun Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
5. noun The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
6. noun Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

Similar words

imaging imagination mental imagery picture graphic graphics art photo image depiction

Often followed by

of and in is to that as was for

Word family

image imageries images