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envision

/ɪnˈvɪʒn̩/

envision verb: to conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.

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.
    • 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...2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club

envision meaning in Malayalam

envision in Malayalam

imagine, visualize, envisage
വിഭാവനം ചെയ്യുക, സങ്കല്പിക്കുക, മനസ്സിൽ ചിത്രീകരിക്കുക, ഭാവനയിൽ ദർശിക്കുക, ഭാവനയിൽകാണുക, മനസ്സിൽ ചിത്രീകരിക്ക

Examples of envision in a sentence

  • Some versions of utopian communism envisioned true moneylessness; others envisioned money and prices but under centrally planned control.
  • At the same time, the kinds of affectivities evoked in us, such as fear and gratitude, also depend partly on how we envision and interpret the objects in question.
  • Futurists envisioned these techbros would put us on the path to a better world.

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Synonyms of envision

All synonyms of envision

Forms of envision

third-person singular presentenvisions
present participleenvisioning
past participleenvisioned
pastenvisioned

Past tense of envision: envisioned

Origin of envision

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

Words formed from envision

Words that rhyme with envision

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Questions about envision

What does envision mean?
Envision means to conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.
What is envision in Malayalam?
Envision in Malayalam is വിഭാവനം ചെയ്യുക, സങ്കല്പിക്കുക, മനസ്സിൽ ചിത്രീകരിക്കുക. See Envision meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is envision?
Envision is a verb.
How do you pronounce envision?
Envision is pronounced /ɪnˈvɪʒn̩/.
What is the past tense of envision?
The past tense of envision is envisioned.

Words near envision in the dictionary

  1. envisager
  2. envisagers
  3. envisages
  4. envisaging
  5. Envises
  6. envision
  7. envisioned
  8. envisioner
  9. envisioners
  10. envisioning
  11. envisionings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: envision (page history and authors); envision (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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