MENTAL IMAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental image mean? 

• MENTAL IMAGE (noun)
  The noun MENTAL IMAGE has 1 sense:

1. an iconic mental representation

  Familiarity information: MENTAL IMAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTAL IMAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An iconic mental representation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

image; mental image

Context example:

her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate

Hypernyms ("mental image" is a kind of...):

internal representation; mental representation; representation (a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental image"):

imagination image; thought-image (a mental image produced by the imagination)

memory image (a mental image of something previously experienced)

visual image; visualisation; visualization (a mental image that is similar to a visual perception)

impression; mental picture; picture (a clear and telling mental image)

auditory image (a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception)