imagery

Meaning

Noun

• The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
• Imitation work.
• Images in general, or en masse.
• 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.

Origin

• From Middle English ymagerie, from Middle French imagerie; equivalent to image + -ry.