Envision

//ɪnˈvɪʒn̩// verb

verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine. transitive

    "Miller famously tried to use as little CGI as possible in Fury Road. Instead, he got people to make the freaky, impossible cars he’d envisioned—the spike-covered scavenger-mobiles, the monster-truck hot rod, the enormous War Rig that really serves as a main character in itself—into functional vehicles."

  2. 2
    imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind wordnet
  3. 3
    picture to oneself; imagine possible wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
envisagevisualizevisualizeanticipatecall to mindcall up

Example

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"I didn't envision him as a Klingon speaker; his forehead was too smooth."

Etymology

From en- + vision, from Latin visionem (“a thing or sight seen”).

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