MIND'S EYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mind's eye mean? 

• MIND'S EYE (noun)
  The noun MIND'S EYE has 1 sense:

1. the imaging of remembered or invented scenes

  Familiarity information: MIND'S EYE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIND'S EYE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The imaging of remembered or invented scenes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

I could see her clearly in my mind's eye

Hypernyms ("mind's eye" is a kind of...):

imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery (the ability to form mental images of things or events)

 Context examples 

I quite believe that Mr. Micawber saw himself, in his judicial mind's eye, on the woolsack.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Negore looked upon them with satisfaction, and in his mind's eye he saw them crushed and lifeless at the passage up the rocks.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But, having reached this point of conjecture, Mrs. Poole's square, flat figure, and uncomely, dry, even coarse face, recurred so distinctly to my mind's eye, that I thought, No; impossible! my supposition cannot be correct.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This phantom wore many faces, but it always had golden hair, was enveloped in a diaphanous cloud, and floated airily before his mind's eye in a pleasing chaos of roses, peacocks, white ponies, and blue ribbons.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind's eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it—and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended—a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)