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Mental image   /mˈɛntəl ˈɪmədʒ/   Listen
Mental image

noun
1.
An iconic mental representation.  Synonym: image.






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"Mental image" Quotes from Famous Books



... memory as a beautiful idea, after it has ceased to exist as a palpable fact. As the best constitution ever devised by human wisdom, we shall always find a more exquisite delight in meditating on the mental image of its perfect features than in enjoying the practical blessings of any other Government which may be established after it is dead and gone; and our feeling regarding it can be best expressed in the words in which the lyric poet celebrates his loyalty ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

... decade I have given much thought to this question: Does the efficiency of one's thinking depend at all upon the clearness and distinctness of the mental image used in the thinking? I settled the question in the negative. The formation of this principle (clear thinking does not depend upon clear visual image) was an act of reflective judgment. But now the application of this preformed judgment has developed into an expert judgment. Recently ...
— Increasing Efficiency In Business • Walter Dill Scott

... flights of fancy seemed short, rather, and poor and untutored; and even the fact that she was a sprig of the transatlantic democracy never sufficiently explained her apathy on social questions. She had a mental image of that son of the Crusaders who was to suffer her to adore him, but like many an artist who has produced a masterpiece of idealisation she shrank from exposing it to public criticism. It was the portrait of a gentleman rather ugly than handsome and rather poor than rich. But his ...
— Madame de Mauves • Henry James



Words linked to "Mental image" :   representation, mental picture, auditory image, imagination image, internal representation, visualization, impression, picture, memory image, visual image, mental representation, thought-image, visualisation



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