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View synonyms for envision

envision

[ en-vizh-uhn ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to picture mentally, especially some future event or events:

    to envision a bright future.



envision

/ ɪnˈvɪʒən /

verb

  1. tr to conceive of as a possibility, esp in the future; foresee
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of envision1

First recorded in 1920–25; en- 1 + vision
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Example Sentences

I mean, it’s something we talk a lot about on the show, what it takes not just to envision something special for yourself, but actually realize it.

From Ozy

A pause, as envisioned by Socrates, is the fertile ground from which good ideas sprout.

From Fortune

They envision a national network—“a universe unto itself” where cell phones would share a single area code.

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The agency envisioned a centralized national system that would integrate both physical and digital surveillance using the latest technology.

He said he envisions manufacturers creating different software modules for each portion of the anatomy that is typically scanned.

From Fortune

Did you envision your Pryor biography as extending your previous investigation—aesthetically and historically?

Urban economists, particularly those on the self-satisfied coasts, tend to envision utter hopelessness for the region.

Were you defining yourself as a fiction writer then, or did you already envision writing essays like the ones in The Unspeakable?

They envision a group of stealth killers each with a seek-and-destroy mission killing cancer “naturally.”

That is my faith, even if the pain of the present moment is too excruciating to envision what it might be.

The more gifted viewers back on Earth might even envision filets mignon.

One could very well,” one of his biographers declares, “envision him as a knight in full armor leading a troop in the charge.

They could envision the meeting of those problems, and they could envision the obtaining of jungle-plows.

“I certainly agree with you,” declared Penny, for she could not envision young Ottman as a saboteur.

It was not easy to envision, but he found it impossible to imagine sinking back to his former state.

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