envisaging

Synonyms for envisaging

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noun. understanding; idea

Word Origin & History

1778, from French envisager "look in the face of," from en- "cause to" (see en- (1)) + visage "face" (see visage). Related: Envisaged; envisaging.

This was the refuge he kept locked, using the expression and envisaging it.

A stern way of envisaging the world: but it gives not only security against the gods, but also resignation and tranquillity.

The fallacy of such arguments lies in envisaging the large problem of East and West from its partial expression.

Life was no longer boring, he was envisaging everything from a new point of view, he had no longer any ambition.

And then one of the towers flashed on a sub-ray—the dull infra-red for envisaging the slow rays below the power of human sight.

And our bias renders us perhaps equally incapable of envisaging the mind of the enemy.

"Or—" Cassandra began, but checked herself from the liberty of envisaging Katharine as the widow of a distinguished lawyer.

He was envisaging the days which were now bound to come with a peculiar sense of tension.

But, as for Mr. Senhouse himself, at this time of envisaging of ways I don't believe that he entered her head.

But he contrived to win the President over to his way of envisaging many Oriental questions.