visualising

Forming mental images

Visualising is the British spelling of visualizing—forming a mental image of something not present or not yet real.

Athletes visualise success before competition; architects visualise buildings before construction begins.

The word covers both deliberate imagination She visualised the finished garden and involuntary mental pictures I can't stop visualising what might go wrong.

imagining

picturing

Forming mental images

mental image · fantasizing · daydreaming · dreaming · conceiving · projecting · perceiving · contemplating · foreseeing · anticipating

creative

sketching

Making rough drawings

drafting · designing · diagramming · doodling · animating · composing · prototyping · modeling · storyboarding · mapping

insight

clarity

State of being understandable

realization · comprehension · foresight · awareness · big picture · overview · discernment · grasping · pattern recognition · mental model

planning

roadmap

Detailed plan forward

forecast · milestones · workflow · strategy · scheduling · objectives · projection · scenario · goal-setting · prioritization

analytical

charting

Recording data visually

plotting · dashboard · heatmap · flowchart · scatter plot · bar chart · pie chart · histogram · infographic · tableau

Opposites
mental vs. direct perception

visualisingseeing

Perceiving by sight

observing · perceiving · witnessing · viewing · watching

imagining vs. ignoring/blocking

visualisingblanking out

Sudden memory failure

suppressing · blocking · ignoring · disregarding · repressing

abstract mental activity vs. concrete action

visualisingactualising

Making potential become real

doing · executing · realising · implementing · materialising

Family

vision, television, visual, invisible, evident, revise, visionary, supervise, provision

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Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G