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imago
[ih-mey-goh, ih-mah-]
noun
plural
imagoes, imaginesEntomology.an adult insect.
Psychoanalysis.an idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life.
imago
/ ɪˈɪɡəʊ /
noun
an adult sexually mature insect produced after metamorphosis
psychoanal an idealized image of another person, usually a parent, acquired in childhood and carried in the unconscious in later life
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of imago1
Example Sentences
Fox imagines his girls as Balthusian waifs, attracting him with a distracted air of seduction.
The show imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a hard-drinking, boisterous, wannabe cabaret star, beleaguered by her marriage to what Escola imagines is an obviously gay president.
The parody ad imagines couture for 30-something women as roomy, boxy, drab and sexless.
“Your brain hears that and imagines the person is about three feet tall.”
There's an old John Mulaney routine in which he imagines what one might say to persuade someone to convert to Catholicism.
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