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envisioning

envisioning

1 5.1
Making a clear picture in your mind of something, often of the future
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈvɪʒənɪŋ/
translation icon : 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
14 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
12 3.5

A thought or picture you make in your mind

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

To imagine scenes or events clearly in your mind

forms images of future situations rather than only visual images

How Clear

visualization
  • Specialized
14 5.2
envisioning
1 5.1
conception
59 4.6
imagination
717 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.