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imago
[ ih-mey-goh, ih-mah- ]
noun
- Entomology. 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
imago
/ ĭ-′ō /
, Plural imagoes ĭ-′ə-ŧ′
- An insect in its sexually mature adult stage after metamorphosis.
- Compare larva
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of imago1
Example Sentences
While that unease remains a familiar reality for queer people, Guiraudie’s film imagines a not-too-distant world where queerness is folded into the fabric of everyday life.
Occasionally, when it gets hot in the summer and they wish they had air conditioning, Abraham imagines moving to a brand-new place.
Miranda July’s book ‘All Fours,’ about a Los Angeles woman’s reckoning with perimenopause, imagines the end of fecundity as a joyful second flowering.
In another example, Mr Colman imagines the aircraft dropping sonar buoys and flying over a small fishing boat.
The court’s decision “distorts our jurisdiction and imagines a constitutional violation where none occurred,” Thomas wrote.
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