imagery
English
/ˈɪmɪdʒɹi/
noun
Definitions
- The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
- Imitation work.
- Images in general, or en masse.
- (figuratively) 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.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ymagerie derived from Middle French imagerie affix from English image.
Origin
English
image
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- afterimage English
- afterimagery English
- bioimage English
- counterimage English
- eigenimage English
- fluoroimage English
- holoimage English
- image English
- imageability English
- imageable English
- imageboard English
- imageless English
- imagelike English
- imagemaker English
- imagemapped English
- imagemapping English
- imagen English
- imageology English
- imager English
- imagesetter English
- imagism English
- imagist English
- imagistic English
- macroimage English
- microimage English
- microimagery English
- neuroimage English
- neuroimagery English
- nonimage English
- orthoimage English
- orthoimagery English
- phosphoimage English
- phosphoimagery English
- photoimage English
- preimage English
- reimage English
- self-image English
- stereoimage English
- subimage English
- Image German
- image Dutch, Flemish
- image French
- imagerie French
- и́мидж Russian
- имидж Russian
- image Norwegian Bokmål
- image Norwegian Nynorsk
- ymage Middle English
- ymagerie Middle English
- imidž Serbo-Croatian
- imajo Ido
- imagerie Middle French
- imidž Estonian
- imidž Slovak
- image
- imagen
- imager
- imagist
- imagism
- reimage
- nonimage
- bioimage
- subimage
- preimage
- imagistic
- imageable
- imagelike
- holoimage
- imageless
- microimage
- imageology
- macroimage
- orthoimage
- eigenimage
- neuroimage
- imageboard
- imagemaker
- self-image
- photoimage
- afterimage
- stereoimage
- imagemapped
- fluoroimage
- imagesetter
- phosphoimage
- counterimage
- imagemapping
- afterimagery
- neuroimagery
- orthoimagery
- imageability
- microimagery
- phosphoimagery