envision

[en-vizh-uh n]

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verb (used with object)

to picture mentally, especially some future event or events: to envision a bright future.

Origin of envision

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

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Examples from the Web for envisioning

Contemporary Examples

And you'd face some truly epic problems getting insurers to insure it in the way that I think the author is envisioning.
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Megan McArdle
December 28, 2012
And he knew that he was envisioning something unprecedented.
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March 31, 2012
Envisioning a New Future for Women If you could picture a different world for women in the future, what would it look like?
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March 9, 2012

Historical Examples

He had some pleasure later, though, envisioning what went elsewhere.
Pariah Planet
Murray Leinster
And we were all dreamers, envisioning the seas with death grapples, ship and ship.
Wounds in the rain
Stephen Crane
I'd been envisioning ourselves as marooned, yes, but relatively safe as long as we were thought to be dead.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930
Various
Mentally she was envisioning the whole scene of the story which hesitatingly—almost unwilling, it seemed—Elisabeth had poured out.
The Hermit of Far End
Margaret Pedler
What child, envisioning a desert island all his own could imagine that his island would be the whole world?
The Most Sentimental Man
Evelyn E. Smith

British Dictionary definitions for envisioning

envision

verb

(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

Word Origin and History for envisioning

envision

v.

1914, from en- (1) "make, put in" + vision. Related: Envisioned; envisioning. Earlier (1827) is envision'd in sense "endowed with vision."

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Examples from the Web for envisioning

Contemporary Examples

And you'd face some truly epic problems getting insurers to insure it in the way that I think the author is envisioning.

And he knew that he was envisioning something unprecedented.

Envisioning a New Future for Women If you could picture a different world for women in the future, what would it look like?

Historical Examples

He had some pleasure later, though, envisioning what went elsewhere.

And we were all dreamers, envisioning the seas with death grapples, ship and ship.

I'd been envisioning ourselves as marooned, yes, but relatively safe as long as we were thought to be dead.

Mentally she was envisioning the whole scene of the story which hesitatingly—almost unwilling, it seemed—Elisabeth had poured out.

What child, envisioning a desert island all his own could imagine that his island would be the whole world?

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Word Origin and History for envisioning

envision

v.

Origin of envision