noun fig.: unreal show; imitation; appearance.
2. imagery ·noun the work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
3. imagery ·noun the work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.
4. imagery ·noun rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.