mental representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or imageinstantiation - a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it; "how many instantiations were found?" antitype - a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol; especially a figure in the Old Testament having a counterpart in the New Testament stereotype - a conventional or formulaic conception or image; "regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding" schema, scheme - an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world image, mental image - an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" phantasmagoria - a constantly changing medley or real or imagined images (as in a dream) memory - something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost" example, model - a representative form or pattern; "I profited from his example" appearance - a mental representation; "I tried to describe his appearance to the police" blur, fuzz - a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz" |