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visualize

[ vizh-oo-uh-lahyz ]
/ ˈvɪʒ u əˌlaɪz /
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verb (used without object), vis·u·al·ized, vis·u·al·iz·ing.

to recall or form mental images or pictures.

verb (used with object), vis·u·al·ized, vis·u·al·iz·ing.

to make visual or visible.
to form a mental image of.
to make perceptible to the mind or imagination.

Nearby words

visual range, visual receptor cell, visual violet, visualise, visualization, visualize, visually, visually handicapped, visually impaired, visuognosis, visuomotor
Also especially British, vis·u·al·ise.

Origin of visualize

First recorded in 1810–20; visual + -ize
Related forms
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Examples from the Web for visualist

  • He is an "auditive" as well as a "visualist," to employ the precious classification of the psychiatrists.

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British Dictionary definitions for visualist

visualize

visualise

/ (ˈvɪʒʊəˌlaɪz, -zjʊ-) /

verb

to form a mental image of (something incapable of being viewed or not at that moment visible)
med to view by means of an X-ray the outline of (a bodily organ, structure, or part)
Derived Formsvisualizer or visualiser, noun
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Word Origin and History for visualist

visualize

v.

1817, first attested in, and perhaps coined by, Coleridge; see visual + -ize. Related: Visualized; visualizing.

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