picturing
- noun
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imaginación
- Well, first of all, picturing is easier than you say.
Examples
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However, what I want to do here is close to the reverse: to emphasize the status of Sloan's pictures not as documents of turn-of-the-century urban experience but rather as complex meditations on art and picturing.
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At once serving as a model for the future emancipation of art and tracing back its origins to Michelangelo's disegno, the Accademia del Disegno defined drawing as art's exclusive path to the picturing of empire.
Academic text (2011) -
I was starting to actually get emotional because I was picturing, I was picturing me as a little guy.
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And also I'm just picturing what they look like.
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You start picturing the world as a lattice.
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So with that said, I'm picturing a giant farm, tractors, Right.
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It is as though Howard's poems are most successful in picturing a world outside themselves, in effacing themselves as representations, when they acknowledge that picturing of this kind isn't possible: when they acknowledge that mystery and ruination are, on some level, not poetic figures but simply immanent in the world.
Academic text (1993) -
I spent hours picturing my dream home with a garden and a pool.
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During the meditation, she found herself picturing peaceful landscapes.
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He was picturing himself winning the race as he trained every day.
Synonyms
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3.3
A picture you form in your mind from words or ideas
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4.9
The ability to make pictures in your mind
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5.2
To form a clear picture in your mind to understand or reach a goal
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3.5
A thought or picture you make in your mind
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3.5
A clear image you form in your mind
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3.8
A picture you make in your mind of something not there
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3.8
A picture in your mind of something you have seen
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4.2
Ability to make pictures in your mind of things that are not there
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6.7
An idea in your mind that stands for something you remember or imagine
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5.1
Making a clear picture in your mind of something, often of the future
An image you make in your mind when you imagine something
A mental picture of a plan or future result
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Etymology
Picturing comes from the word picture, which originally came from an old word meaning 'to paint'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine 'painting' a scene inside your head, which is why picturing means creating mental images.