repicturing

Mentally seeing anew

Repicturing is forming a new mental image of something, reconceiving or reimagining it: The therapy helped her start repicturing her childhood in a less painful light.

The word suggests actively replacing one visualization with another, whether of memories, possibilities, or how something might look.

mental-imagery

mind's eye

Internal visualization capacity

visualizationForming mental or graphical images
envisioningForming mental pictures
imaginingForming mental pictures

conjuring · recall · memory · cognition · perception · contemplation · reflection · meditation · inner vision

reimagining

visualization

Forming mental or graphical images

reconceptualizationForming a new understanding
reframingChanging interpretive context
rethinkingReconsidering a position

reimagination · reinterpretation · reconceiving · recasting · reshaping · reconstructing · redefining · transforming · reinventing · reworking

creative

brainstorming

Generating many ideas freely

ideationForming mental concepts
conceptualizationMental creation of ideas
innovationCreating something original

artistic vision · originality · inventiveness · inspiration · experimentation · divergent thinking · creative process · imagination · ingenuity · visionary thinking

Opposites

cognitive revision vs. initial perception

repicturingfirst impression

Instant assessment of someone

first glimpse · snap judgment · first take · initial assessment

mental flexibility vs. mental rigidity

repicturingfixating

Focusing to excess

clinging to · close-mindedness · perseverating · confirmation bias · entrenchment

reconception vs. fixed conception

repicturingretaining

Holding onto still

preserving · maintaining · cementing · fixing · solidifying

Family

picture, pictures, depict, pigment, depiction, pictured, picturesque, picturing, pictorial

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