envisaging

Forming mental images

Envisaging is the present participle of envisage, meaning to picture something in one's mind or contemplate as a possibility.

She had trouble envisaging herself in the role.

The word is more common in British than American English, where envision often takes its place.

The architects were envisaging a completely different layout.

imagination

visualization

Forming mental or graphical images

conceptualization · daydreaming · fantasizing · ideation · hypothesizing · imagining · invention · abstraction · brainstorming · reverie

anticipation

expectation

Belief about future outcomes

foreseeing · prediction · premonition · speculation · intuition · prognostication · apprehension · preparedness · hopefulness · suspense

planning

strategy

Planned approach to goals

framework · outline · projection · scheme · design · layout · goal-setting · mission · agenda · charting

forecasting

prediction

Forecast of coming events

estimation · projection · futurology · outlook · trajectory · forecasting

Opposites
mental versus direct perception

envisagingexperiencing

Living through firsthand

witnessing · observing · perceiving · seeing · sensing

contemplation versus dismissal

envisagingdismissing

Removing from position

disregarding · ignoring · rejecting · ruling out · discounting

forward-thinking versus retrospection

envisagingrecalling

Bringing to mind again

remembering · looking back · recollecting · retrospecting · reminiscing

Family

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