Meaning

noun an iconic mental representation

noun (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

noun a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

originFrom Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.

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