mind's eye

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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noun

Etymology: 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).