mind's eye

/'maindz'ai/

Thân thiện

I can see the old house clearly in my mind's eye.

Definition

Noun: - The mental faculty of imagination or visual memory: The "mind's eye" refers to the human ability to see or visualize images, scenes, or objects in one's imagination or memory, without using the physical eyes.

Usage

The term is almost exclusively used in the fixed phrase "in one's mind's eye". It describes the internal, subjective experience of visualization. - It is used to describe seeing something through imagination or memory. - It often implies a clear, vivid, or detailed mental picture.

Examples

• (I can vividly imagine/remember it.)
• (He visualized it in his imagination.)
• (She had a clear mental image of it.)

Advanced Usage

• Literary and Descriptive Use: The phrase is common in literary, descriptive, and introspective contexts to convey the power of memory or creative thought.
  • The novelist worked by first seeing the entire story unfold in her mind's eye.

Variants and Related Words

• Imagination (n): The faculty of forming new ideas, images, or concepts not present to the senses.
• Visualization (n): The act or process of forming a mental image.
• Memory (n): The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.

Synonyms

• Imagination
• Inner eye
• Mental image
• Visual memory

Idioms and Fixed Phrases

• In one's mind's eye: This is the standard and primary idiom containing the term.
  • He kept the goal in his mind's eye throughout his training. (He constantly visualized the goal.)

Học thuật

Noun

1. the imaging of remembered or invented scenes
   • I could see her clearly in my mind's eye