VISUAL IMAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visual image mean? 

• VISUAL IMAGE (noun)
  The noun VISUAL IMAGE has 2 senses:

1. a mental image that is similar to a visual perception

2. a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system

  Familiarity information: VISUAL IMAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISUAL IMAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mental image that is similar to a visual perception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

visual image; visualisation; visualization

Hypernyms ("visual image" is a kind of...):

image; mental image (an iconic mental representation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

visual image; visual percept

Hypernyms ("visual image" is a kind of...):

percept; perception; perceptual experience (the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visual image"):

eye candy (visual images that are pleasing to see but are intellectually undemanding)

field; field of view (the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument))

sight (an instance of visual perception)

aspect; panorama; prospect; scene; view; vista (the visual percept of a region)

field of regard; field of vision; visual field (all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment)