Evokes

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To call to mind feelings, images, or thoughts through associations or suggestions
2. To bring a memory, feeling, or image to consciousness through suggestion or reminder
3. To cause someone to remember or imagine something by hinting at it indirectly

Etymology: Roman commanders had a striking ritual called "evocatio." Before storming an enemy city, they called out its gods and invited them to abandon their people and come over to Rome. The verb behind it, "evocare," combined "ex," meaning "out," with "vocare," meaning "to call," so the original sense was literally to call something forth. English took the verb directly from Latin and at first kept that summoning sense, as when a spirit or memory was called up. The gentler modern meaning, bringing a feeling or image to mind without stating it outright, grew from that same act of calling something into view.

Synonyms: elicits, brings forth, summons, calls to mind, produces

Antonyms: suppress, stifle, quash, repress, subdue