Definition for Imagery:

• Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

Synonyms for Imagery:

• n.

  •
  • bathos,
  • dramatic irony,
  • mental images,
  • establish,
  • anthropomorphic,
  • description,
  • representation,
  • symbolism,
  • characterization,
  • allegory,
  • dialogue,
  • device,
  • dialog,
  • Deus Ex Machina.
  •
  • canon,
  • composition,
  • background,
  • back catalog,
  • assemblage,
  • artwork,
  • art,
  • chef-d'oeuvre,
  • fine art.
  •cognition (noun)
  • imaging,
  • mental imagery,
  • imagery.
  •figure of speech (noun)
  • comparison,
  • alliteration,
  • allusion,
  • onomatopoeia,
  • irony,
  • parallelism,
  • contrast,
  • ornament,
  • figuration,
  • simile,
  • oxymoron,
  • metaphor,
  • sarcasm.
  •imagination (noun)
  • resourcefulness,
  • wittiness,
  • unreality,
  • unrealities,
  • Idealities,
  • in sight,
  • creative thought,
  • perceptibility,
  • visualizations,
  • visualization,
  • mental agility,
  • insights.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • personification.

Paraphrases for Imagery:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    imaging.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    imaging.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    image, images.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    image.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    illustrations, Shots, sounds.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Photographing, imagination, depiction, portrayal.

Imagery Sentence Examples:

• Lastly, the imagination is the exercise of mental imagery - the picturings of silent thought.

• Imagery and description avail nothing when the indescribable is reached!

Hypernym for Imagery:

• n.

  • cognition
    dream, evocation, dreaming, make-believe, mind's eye, chimaera, pretense, chimera, picturing, envisioning, vision, pretence.

Hyponym for Imagery:

• n.

  • cognition
    representational process.