noun
the imaging of remembered or invented scenes (Freq. 1)
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I could see her clearly in my mind's eye
• Hypernyms: ↑imagination, ↑imaging, ↑imagery, ↑mental imagery
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nounEtymology: Middle English myndes ye, from mindes, mindes (gen. of minde, mynde mind, memory) + ye, eie, eye eye
: the faculty held capable of seeing a mental vision consisting of an imaginary or recollected sight as opposed to one actually seen at the time
in my mind's eye I could still see the fields covered with tanks, guns, and tents — G.S.Patton
a hundred times, in his mind's eye, his car stopped at their little gate — D.D.Lloyd
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the hypothetical site of visual recollection or imagination: In her mind's eye she saw the city as it had been in Caesar's time.
[1375-1425; late ME]
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mind's eye noun
Visual imagination, mental view, contemplation
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Main Entry: ↑mind
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mind's eye,
mental view of vision; imagination: »
And now crossing my mind's eye were the visions that had gone with the name (New Yorker).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.