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make-believe vs mental imagery

mental imagery vs make-believe

make-believe and mental imagery both are nouns.

make-believe is an adjective but mental imagery is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
make-believe Yes Yes No No
mental imagery Yes No No No
As nouns, mental imagery is a hypernym of make-believe; that is, mental imagery is a word with a broader meaning than make-believe:
  • make-believe: imaginative intellectual play
  • mental imagery: the ability to form mental images of things or events
Other hypernyms of make-believe include imagery, imagination, imaging.
make-believe (noun) mental imagery (noun)
the enactment of a pretense the ability to form mental images of things or events
imaginative intellectual play
make-believe (adjective) mental imagery (adjective)
imagined as in a play
Difference between make-believe and mental imagery

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