1. (psychology) a mental image of somebody as being perfect that you do not realize you have and that influences your behaviour
2. the final and fully developed adult stage of an insect, especially one with wings
Word Originlate 18th cent. (in sense (2)): modern Latin use of Latin imago ‘image’. Sense (1) dates from the early 20th cent.

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