visualizev.
/ˈvɪzjʊəlʌɪz/, /ˈvɪzjʊlʌɪz/, /ˈvɪʒʊəlʌɪz/, /ˈvɪʒʊlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈvɪʒ(ə)wəˌlaɪz/, /ˈvɪʒəˌlaɪz/ 1. transitive. To form a mental vision, image, or picture of (something not visible or present to the sight, or of an abstraction); to make visible to the mind or imagination.Frequently in recent use, sometimes in connection with special branches of psychology or psychical research.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
thinkOE
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portraya1375
imagec1390
dreama1393
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imaginea1398
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fancy1551
surmit?1577
surmise1586
conceit?1589
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ideate1610
project1612
figurea1616
forma1616
to call up1622
propound1634
edify1645
picture1668
create1679
fancify1748
depicture1775
vision1796
to conjure up1819
conjure1820
envisage1836
to dream up1837
visualize1863
envision1921
pre-visualize1969
1817 [see visualized adj. at Derivatives]. 1834 [see visualized adj. at Derivatives].
1863 J. Tyndall Heat x. 350 We can hardly help attempting to visualise the atoms themselves.
1899 J. Smith Christian Char. 165 Bunyan, in his immortal allegory, visualised the progress from justification to glory.
2. absol. or intransitive. To form a mental picture of something not visible or present, or of an abstract thing, etc.; to construct a visual image or images in the mind.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (intransitive)]
areachc1220
supposea1393
thinka1400
framea1529
to conceive of1570
humour1605
imagine1631
conceive1658
realize1658
visualize1871
1871 J. A. Symonds in H. F. Brown Biog. (1895) II. 52 For numbers I have..no head. I do not visualise except in the most rudimentary way.
1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 485 This answers to the way in which I visualize for them.
1897 A. Lang Bk. Dreams & Ghosts ii. 58 A novelist of my acquaintance can ‘visualise’ so well that [etc.].
3. transitive. To render visible.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be or make visible [verb (transitive)] > make visible
wisec1400
show1532
reveal1590
unbosom1610
unveil1656
visualize1912
1912 Moving Picture World 17 Aug. 646/2 The printed volumes of ancient history have been carefully preserved and why not the film, which is more accurate and which, supplementing the printed story, would visualize the actual occurrences so that all may readily understand?
1925 D. H. Lawrence in Cal. Mod. Lett. Dec. 269 And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than Van Gogh can.
1938 Q. Jrnl. Med. 31 462 Inflating the stomach with gas by means of an effervescing drink, a procedure we have found of great help in visualizing the apex [of the heart in radiography].
1958 A.M.A. Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 79 59/1 The dorsal root axons..may then be stained and visualized.
1971 Daily Tel. 18 Nov. 5 (advt.) Research has led to the building of an ultra-sensitive Schlieren apparatus, in which pulsed ultrasound may be visualised both in water and in solids.
Derivatives
ˈvisualized adj. made visual or visible to the mind; formed in the mind.Carlyle's use of visualized was objected to by Sterling (see Carlyle Life Sterling ii. ii).
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > imagined or visualized
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imaginate1533
conceited1543
imaginedc1550
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fustian1601
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imaged1718
visual1817
visualized1817
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. ii. 48 (note) The images are at least consistent, and it was the intention of the writers to mark the seasons by this allegory of visualized puns.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. viii. 19/1 A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance;—some embodied, visualised Idea in the Eternal Mind?
1883 F. Galton Inquiries into Human Faculty (1910) 112 A third..abiding fantasy of certain persons is invariably to connect visualised pictures with words.
ˈvisualizing n. (also attributive) and adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > act of imagining
imagination1340
conceptiona1387
imaginingc1430
suppositiona1529
conceiving1559
picturing1562
conceiting1563
fancy1581
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surmise1592
imagery1595
imaging1648
ideation1818
envisagement1877
visualizing1880
envisaging1883
visualization1883
envisioning1938
projecting1960
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [adjective] > exercising imagination
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imaginous1606
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representative1814
imaginant1840
visualizing1880
ideoplastic1883
fanciful-
1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 43 A pictorial visualizing imagination, which can faithfully depict the scenes recorded.
1881 Sat. Rev. 30 July 142/1 Mr. Francis Galton's interesting illustrations of the power of visualizing.
a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. p. xli It involves at least a great increase in his ordinary visualising power.
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