envision

envision

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪʒən

Verb

envision (third-person singular simple present envisions, present participle envisioning, simple past and past participle envisioned)

1. (transitive) To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.
   • 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     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.

Synonyms

• envisage, visualize, dream, imagine, think up

Translations

to conceive or see something within one's mind

Esperanto: vizii Finnish: visioida, kuvitella (fi), nähdä mielessään French: envisager (fr)

Portuguese: visualizar Romanian: întrevedea (ro) Swedish: föreställa sig

Further reading

• envision at OneLook Dictionary Search