Meanings
present singular third person envisions · participle present envisioning · participle past envisioned · past envisioned
- transitiveTo conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.
1 more example
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.
2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.
More synonyms by meaning
verbimagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinvisionem“a thing or sight seen”
- Englishenvision
From en- + vision, from Latin visionem (“a thing or sight seen”).
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Chinese Mandarin 想象, 展望
- 想象 (xiǎngxiàng)to conceive or see something within one's mind
- 展望 (zhǎnwàng)to conceive or see something within one's mind
Esperanto vizii
- viziito conceive or see something within one's mind
Finnish visioida, kuvitella
- visioidato conceive or see something within one's mind
- kuvitellato conceive or see something within one's mind
- nähdä mielessäänto conceive or see something within one's mind
French envisager
- envisagerto conceive or see something within one's mind
German sich vorstellen
- sich vorstellento conceive or see something within one's mind
Italian immaginare, prevedere
- immaginareto conceive or see something within one's mind
- prevedereto conceive or see something within one's mind
- pensareto conceive or see something within one's mind
- sognareto conceive or see something within one's mind
Portuguese visualizar
- visualizarto conceive or see something within one's mind
Romanian întrevedea
- întrevedeato conceive or see something within one's mind
Spanish imaginar, visualizar
- imaginarto conceive or see something within one's mind
- visualizarto conceive or see something within one's mind
- concebirto conceive or see something within one's mind
- idearto conceive or see something within one's mind
- discurrirto conceive or see something within one's mind
- fraguarto conceive or see something within one's mind
Swedish föreställa sig
- föreställa sigto conceive or see something within one's mind
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
envision. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/envision
“envision.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/envision. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “envision,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/envision.
Source: envision on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.