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imago

[ih-mey-goh, ih-mah-]

noun

plural

imagoes, imagines 
  1. Entomology.an adult insect.

  2. Psychoanalysis.an idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life.



imago

/ ɪˈɪɡəʊ /

noun

  1. an adult sexually mature insect produced after metamorphosis

  2. psychoanal an idealized image of another person, usually a parent, acquired in childhood and carried in the unconscious in later life

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

imago

plural

imagoes 
  1. An insect in its sexually mature adult stage after metamorphosis.

  2. Compare larva nymph pupa

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of imago1

1790–1800; < New Latin, Latin 岵ō; image
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of imago1

C18: New Latin, from Latin: likeness; see image
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Fox imagines his girls as Balthusian waifs, attracting him with a distracted air of seduction.

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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.

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The parody ad imagines couture for 30-something women as roomy, boxy, drab and sexless.

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“Your brain hears that and imagines the person is about three feet tall.”

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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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