4. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery. Dryden.
IMAGINABILITY
Im*ag`i*na*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: Capacity for imagination. [R.] Coleridge.
IMAGINABLE
Im*ag"i*na*ble, a. Etym: [L. imaginabilis: cf. F. imaginable.]
Defn: Capable of being imagined; conceivable.
Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable. Tillotson.
— Im*ag"i*na*ble*ness, n.
— Im*ag"i*na*bly, adv.
IMAGINAL
Im*ag"i*nal, a. Etym: [L. imaginalis.]
1. Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to an imago. Imaginal disks (Zoöl.), masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.
IMAGINANT Im*ag"i*nant, a. Etym: [L. imaginans, p.pr. of imaginari: cf. F. imaginant.]