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Imaging

noun

The ability to form mental images of things or events. Synonyms: imagery, imagination, mental imagery.

(medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body. Synonym: tomography.

Image

verb

(past & past part. imaged; pres. part. imaging)

Render visible, as by means of MRI.

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind. Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize. "I can see what will happen" , "I can see a risk in this strategy"

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"Imaging" Quotes from Famous Books

... exercise, a habit, as it were, of perceiving and abhorring evil, however remote from the immediate sphere of sensations with which that individual mind is conversant. Imagination or mind employed in prophetically imaging forth its objects, is that faculty of human nature on which every gradation of its progress, nay, every, the minutest, change, depends. Pain or pleasure, if subtly analysed, will be found to consist entirely in prospect. ...

— A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays • Percy Bysshe Shelley

... the meaning may be, manifesting one's thought by the voice with verbs and nouns, imaging an opinion in the stream which flows from the lips, as in a mirror or water. Does not explanation appear to ...

— Theaetetus • Plato

... grow by giving it constant care and attention. You should picture to yourself the advantages of acquiring the desirable traits of character of which you have thought. You should frequently go over and over them in your mind, imaging yourself in imagination as possessing them. You will then find that the growing desire will make headway and that you will gradually begin to "want to" possess that trait of character more and more. And when you begin to "want to" hard enough, you will find arising in your consciousness ...

— A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga • Yogi Ramacharaka

... often in the solitude of the night, imaging the bride and bridegroom on the track of rapture, following the ...

— Married Life - The True Romance • May Edginton

... I have perhaps elsewhere drawn the attention of readers to the peculiar effects of climate, in shaping the modes of our thinking and imaging. A life of inertia, which retreats from the dust and toil of actual experience, we (who represent the idea of effeminacy more naturally by the image of shrinking from cold) call a chimney-corner of a fireside experience; but the Romans, ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey