envision

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɪʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  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^[1]:

     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

Derived terms

• envisioner
• envisionment
• reenvision

Translations

to conceive or see something within one's mind

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 想象 (zh) (xiǎngxiàng), 展望 (zh) (zhǎnwàng)

• Esperanto: vizii
• Finnish: visioida, kuvitella (fi), nähdä mielessään
• French: envisager (fr)
• German: sich vorstellen (de)
• Italian: immaginare (it), prevedere (it), pensare (it), sognare (it)
• Portuguese: visualizar
• Romanian: întrevedea (ro)
• Spanish: imaginar (es), visualizar (es), concebir (es), idear (es), discurrir (es), fraguar (es)
• Swedish: föreställa sig

Further reading

• “envision”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.