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envisioning

envisioning

1 5.1
Making a clear picture in your mind of something, often of the future
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈvɪʒənɪŋ/
: visualización
  • Our team is charged with envisioning the future of our undergraduate residences on campus.

That's a much simpler way of envisioning it, I think.

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Examples

  • The work of futurists and innovators most closely aligns in the Sensing and Envisioning practices.

    Academic text (2012)
  • And it was envisioning these scenes that we want for our lives, like what would true success look like?

  • So I mostly get encouragement and motivation from envisioning who I'll be.

  • That's a much simpler way of envisioning it, I think.

  • Nation and modernity were joined, in part, through the envisioning of their alternatives among highland peoples.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The result is a dissipation of any possible impression of unity, even in readers' envisioning of characters as an image in their mind.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Can you take us through how you're scouting the location, how you're envisioning setting up shots?

  • Biosocial science might actually contribute to envisioning and achieving human life in a humane, equitable, and just society.

  • This context building necessitates the envisioning of new American literature in the framework of comparative studies, recognizing that there is more than one nation and more than a few languages forming the landscape now occupied by the self-interested concerns of U.S. literature.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The envisioning of a better world motivates many activists to fight for change.

Synonyms

visualization
vsenvisioning
  • Specialized
17 5.2

To form a clear picture in your mind to understand or reach a goal

focuses on forming mental images of future events rather than aiding goals
imagining
vsenvisioning
11 3.5

A thought or picture you make in your mind

centers on forming mental images of future events rather than general thoughts
picturing
vsenvisioning
1 3.5

To imagine scenes or events clearly in your mind

forms images of future situations rather than only visual images
envisionment
vsenvisioning
1 6.8

A mental picture of a plan or future result

is the act focused on forming a future mental image rather than the result

How Clear

visualization
  • Specialized
17 5.2
envisioning
1 5.1
conception
62 4.6
imagination
584 2.8

Surface Forms

envisioning singular
envisionings plural

Morphology

envisioning = envision (transparent) = envision + ing

The noun is a direct gerund/nominalization of the verb 'envision' formed by adding '-ing', so the meaning 'the act of imagining' is predictable.

Etymology

Envisioning starts with en- and the word vision, and vision comes from an old word meaning 'to see', like in television. So to envision is to 'see' a picture in your mind or make a clear image of the future in your head.