imagery has definitions from the field of psychology
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[ noun ] (psychology) the ability to form mental images of things or events

Examples

"he could still hear her in his imagination"

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

The entire concept of cerebral imagery as the physical basis of a mental_image can find no logical support .

(William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)

The patient himself denied that he had any visual imagery at_all ; and there was ample evidence of the following sort to corroborate him .

This would mean , it can readily be seen , that , again , for each new visual experience the tracing motions would have_to be repeated because of the absence of visual imagery .

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