envisage
While reading Getzels (1979), I came across envisage as a new word. The idea of looking at things we can’t quite see yet is interesting.
envisage
Verb
- form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; “Can you conceive of him as the president?”
- Synonyms
- imagine
- conceive of
- ideate
- Less specific
- create by mental act
- create mentally
- More specific
- visualize
- visualise
- envision
- project
- fancy
- see
- figure
- picture
- image
- visualize
- visualise
- envision
- foresee
- fantasize
- fantasise
- prefigure
- think
- fantasy
- fantasize
- fantasise
- dream
- daydream
- woolgather
- stargaze
- Related
- idea
- thought
- ideation
- imaginative
- inventive
- imagination
- imaging
- imagery
- mental imagery
- imagination
- imaginativeness
- vision
- Synonyms
There are 161 definitions in the project. Most definitions were taken from Terminology app, which is based on the Princeton University's WordNet lexical database. The following is a listing of all of the terms included.
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Reference Author: Getzels (1979)
Reference Citation:
Getzels, J. (1979). Problem Finding: a Theoretical Note. Cognitive Science , 3(2), 167-172. https://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog0302_4
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