imagery

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A set of mental pictures or images.
2. n. The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
3. n. The use of expressive or evocative images in art, literature, or music.
4. n. A group or body of related images, as in a painting or poem.
5. n. Representative images, particularly statues or icons.
6. n. The art of making such images.
7. n. Psychology A technique in behavior therapy in which the patient uses pleasant fantasies to relax and counteract anxiety.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Representation in an image or by images; formation of images by art; also, images collectively.
2. n. A type or general likeness; similitude.
3. n. Descriptive representation; exhibition of ideal images to the mind; figurative illustration.
4. n. Mental representation; formation of images in the mind; fanciful or fantastic imagination.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.
2. n. Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
3. n. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
4. n. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the ability to form mental images of things or events