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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

... 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

... Distinction between an Epick and a Pastoral Writer's manner of Imaging. They are widely different; nor can a Pastoral Image so many Things as an Epick Writer. For he cannot consider Things as Persons, nor use the other Methods that Heroick Poetry takes to ...

— A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) • Thomas Purney

... Parian image of Love, moulding the Cyprian's son; but now Love, the most beautiful of all the gods, imaging himself, has fashioned a breathing statue, Praxiteles, that the one among mortals and the other in heaven may have all love-charms in control, and at once on earth and among the immortals they may bear the sceptres of Desire. Most happy ...

— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail

... 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