All mental image synonyms

noun mental image

• metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
• reminiscence — the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, etc.
• symbolism — the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
• regard — to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.
• afterthought — If you do or say something as an afterthought, you do or say it after something else as an addition, perhaps without careful thought.
• recall — to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
• flash — a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
• mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
• thought — Informal. the act or a period of thinking: I want to sit down and give it a good think.
• reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
• hindsight — recognition of the realities, possibilities, or requirements of a situation, event, decision etc., after its occurrence.
• flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
• recognition — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
• retrospect — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
• anamnesis — the ability to recall past events; recollection
• representation — the act of representing.