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.

  •
  • characterization,
  • symbolism,
  • mental images,
  • device,
  • representation,
  • description,
  • allegory.
  •
  • art.
  •cognition (noun)
  • imaging,
  • mental imagery.
  •figure of speech (noun)
  • comparison,
  • alliteration,
  • allusion,
  • onomatopoeia,
  • irony,
  • parallelism,
  • contrast,
  • ornament,
  • figuration,
  • simile,
  • oxymoron,
  • metaphor,
  • sarcasm.
  •imagination (noun)
  • resourcefulness,
  • visualization.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • personification.
  •Other relevant words:
  • picture,
  • word-painting,
  • chart,
  • cut,
  • whimsy,
  • evocation,
  • resource,
  • phrase,
  • vignette,
  • imitation,
  • Iconography,
  • analogue,
  • imagism,
  • conceit,
  • imageries,
  • images,
  • Parabole,
  • conceptualization,
  • draw,
  • concept,
  • Asiaticism,
  • disfigure,
  • purple passage,
  • musical notation,
  • anagoge,
  • impress,
  • projection,
  • inscribe,
  • character sketch,
  • logograph,
  • flower,
  • romance,
  • drama,
  • sculpt,
  • designing,
  • envisioning,
  • correspond,
  • figure,
  • Dreamery,
  • prosopopoeia,
  • wildest dream,
  • symbol,
  • metalepsis,
  • euphuism,
  • apologue,
  • bubble,
  • trope,
  • particularization,
  • hallucination,
  • tablature,
  • plan,
  • drawing,
  • metonymy,
  • Cloudland,
  • rendition,
  • excogitation,
  • fine arts,
  • hieroglyphic,
  • make-believe,
  • dance notation,
  • catalog,
  • itemization,
  • parable,
  • printing,
  • pictogram,
  • dedicate,
  • apparition,
  • phantom,
  • engraving,
  • vapour,
  • manner of speaking,
  • figment,
  • brainchild,
  • encode,
  • schema,
  • vision,
  • carve,
  • picturing,
  • writing,
  • dreaming,
  • dreamland,
  • mental representation,
  • script,
  • portrayal,
  • flourish,
  • way of speaking,
  • notation,
  • maggot,
  • objectification,
  • figures of speech,
  • map,
  • design,
  • pretense,
  • flight of fancy,
  • fumes of fancy,
  • enroll,
  • enallage,
  • blueprint,
  • Sciagraphy,
  • details,
  • diagram,
  • Envisaging,
  • mental picture,
  • delineation,
  • effigy,
  • illustration,
  • sketch,
  • Phantasm,
  • resort,
  • compartmentalize,
  • score,
  • idealism,
  • incise,
  • specification,
  • Representment,
  • sculpture,
  • catachresis,
  • scrape,
  • limning,
  • presentment,
  • enrol,
  • compose,
  • charactering,
  • analogy,
  • autoradiography,
  • publish,
  • rendering,
  • depiction,
  • adumbration,
  • photograph,
  • whim,
  • invention,
  • type,
  • reference,
  • compile,
  • synecdoche,
  • Prefigurement,
  • fantasque,
  • portrait,
  • ideogram,
  • choreography,
  • Figurativeness,
  • application,
  • Eidolon,
  • Imagining,
  • eidetic image,
  • mental image,
  • pictures,
  • statue,
  • character,
  • refuge,
  • cinematography,
  • engrave,
  • portraiture,
  • realization,
  • fiction,
  • visual image,
  • alphabet,
  • recourse,
  • radiography,
  • cleverness,
  • cataloging,
  • write,
  • wildest dreams,
  • resemblance,
  • exemplification,
  • cameo,
  • Floridity,
  • enter,
  • painting,
  • letter,
  • graphic account,
  • fable,
  • profile,
  • chisel,
  • delirium,
  • syllabary,
  • vapor,
  • demonstration,
  • myth,
  • trip,
  • logogram,
  • turn of expression,
  • enlist,
  • phantasy,
  • impression,
  • photography,
  • tomography.

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.

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.