envisionv.
/ɛnˈvɪʒən/ transitive. To see or foresee as in a vision; to envisage; to visualize.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
thinkOE
bethinkc1175
devise1340
portraya1375
imagec1390
dreama1393
supposea1393
imaginea1398
conceive?a1425
fantasyc1430
purposea1513
to frame to oneselfa1529
'magine1530
imaginate1541
fancy1551
surmit?1577
surmise1586
conceit?1589
propose1594
ideate1610
project1612
figurea1616
forma1616
to call up1622
propound1634
edify1645
picture1668
create1679
fancify1748
depicture1775
vision1796
to conjure up1819
conjure1820
envisage1836
to dream up1837
visualize1863
envision1921
pre-visualize1969
1921 L. Strachey Queen Victoria vii. 221 His blackest hypochondria had never envisioned quite so miserable a Catastrophe.
1925 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 800/1 Namitie..resigned himself apparently to envisioning her in the arms of the perfidious cousin.
1927 Observer 15 May 6 Karel Capek has..envisioned a world in which atomic energy, having been harnessed, first provides mankind with a new religion and then sets all the world at war.
1933 J. Baillie And Life Everlasting (1934) ii. 24 The indictment is..that the glories of heaven have always blinded the eyes of those that envisioned them to the more intimate glories of earth.
1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) iii. 40 And the more he envisioned this prospect, the more he was of two minds about it.
1963 Economist 31 Aug. 744/2 The Negro firebrands, who..envisioned the march as an excuse for swarming into the very offices of Congressmen.
Derivatives
enˈvisioning n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > act of imagining
imagination1340
conceptiona1387
imaginingc1430
suppositiona1529
conceiving1559
picturing1562
conceiting1563
fancy1581
forgery1582
surmise1592
imagery1595
imaging1648
ideation1818
envisagement1877
visualizing1880
envisaging1883
visualization1883
envisioning1938
projecting1960
1938 Observer 18 Dec. 11/2 Mr. Houghton..is addicted to words like ‘envisioning’ which are not to be found in Webster or in the New English Dictionary.
1953 S. Spender Creative Elem. iii. 67 The development of modern literature today away from such highly individualistic envisionings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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