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Mental picture   /mˈɛntəl pˈɪktʃər/   Listen
Mental picture

noun
1.
A clear and telling mental image.  Synonyms: impression, picture.  "He had no clear picture of himself or his world" , "The events left a permanent impression in his mind"






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"Mental picture" Quotes from Famous Books



... laugh. The mental picture of the immaculate, devil-may-care Brent McElroy—sent down in behalf of his father's corporation to develop coal fields, to run a line for the little railroad which Bob had just characterized as "dinky," and otherwise to put into ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... must have changed somewhat during the long interval of her absence, he argued, more as a concession to reason than to desire or sentiment. But in spite of this possibility, his mental picture of her still remained that of the little Indian girl he had confided to the care of the good Sisters of ...
— When Dreams Come True • Ritter Brown

... automobile standing askew across the road and panting. There was a low, semicircular seat with a man in it behind a large steering wheel, a seat so slanted that its occupant was practically recumbent. He had ear-flaps and monstrous goggles. I had a momentary mental picture of him as some Roman staff-officer rushing back to the base in his chariot. He had an imperious air as he glared at me and backed his machine with one hand to straighten it. I found my voice. I said, 'I have as much right to the road as you.' ...
— Aliens • William McFee

... ago when young Hornby had called on her at Tunbridge Wells to announce his impending departure from the land of his birth—at his airy theory that the life of the Canadian farmer was largely occupied with riding, hunting, dancing and tennis, she found to her dismay that her own mental picture of her brother's existence had been nearly ...
— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett

... appearance of each separate article of furniture and decoration, the design and color of the carpet, the color of the walls, the arrangement of toilet articles upon the dresser, and so on? Can you see the whole room just as clearly as if you were in it at this moment? Or is your mental picture ...
— Power of Mental Imagery • Warren Hilton


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