Envisage
verb
To imagine or expect something in the future, especially something you think might happen.
I can't envisage a time when I would ever be able to retire.
Often appears as...
- envisage a future
- envisage a situation
verb
To form a mental picture of something or someone.
They envisage an idealistic society free of crime and poverty.
Often appears as...
- envisage a life
- envisage a world
verb
To imagine or expect something in the future, especially something you think might happen.
I can't envisage a time when I would ever be able to retire.
Often appears as...
- envisage a future
- envisage a situation
verb
To form a mental picture of something or someone.
They envisage an idealistic society free of crime and poverty.
Often appears as...
- envisage a life
- envisage a world
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Future Predictions
Used to speculate about future events that could realistically occur.
Researchers envisage major breakthroughs in cancer treatment.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Present
Applied when imagining scenarios extending far from the present situation.
It's hard to envisage living on Mars in the near future.
Pro Tip 3/3Expectation Tinge
Conveys a nuance of expectation mixed with the visual imagination of events.
I envisage the team securing a victory by the final game.
Pro Tip 1/3Future Predictions
Used to speculate about future events that could realistically occur.
Researchers envisage major breakthroughs in cancer treatment.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Present
Applied when imagining scenarios extending far from the present situation.
It's hard to envisage living on Mars in the near future.
Pro Tip 3/3Expectation Tinge
Conveys a nuance of expectation mixed with the visual imagination of events.
I envisage the team securing a victory by the final game.
Pro Tip 1/3Future Predictions
Used to speculate about future events that could realistically occur.
Researchers envisage major breakthroughs in cancer treatment.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Present
Applied when imagining scenarios extending far from the present situation.
It's hard to envisage living on Mars in the near future.
Pro Tip 3/3Expectation Tinge
Conveys a nuance of expectation mixed with the visual imagination of events.
I envisage the team securing a victory by the final game.
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Parkinson's, depression...
disease but I haven't told you but there's also some evidence that we can might be able to help the repair of damaged areas of brain using electricity and this is something for the future to see if indeed we'd not only change the activity but also some of the reparative functions the brain can be harvested so I envisage that we're going to see a
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Martin Rees: Can we...
shouldn't accept even a one in a billion risk that human extinction would foreclose this immense potential. Some scenarios that have been envisaged may indeed be science fiction, but others may be disquietingly real. It's an important maxim that the unfamiliar
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Why I choose humanism...
The path of success is paved with risk and uncertainties. We have to muster the will and courage to do what people have never done. To think what people have never thought. Envisage what people have never imagined. Go to places human beings have not been to.
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The myth of Prometheus -...
His wife Mary envisaged Prometheus as a more cautionary figure and subtitled her novel The Modern Prometheus." This suggests the damage of corrupting the natural order and remains relevant to the ethical questions surrounding science and technology today.
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Mind-blowing stage...
We envisaged Carmen's hands rising out of Lake Constance, and throwing this deck of cards in the air and leaving them suspended between sky and sea. But this transient gesture, this flick of the wrists had to become a structure that would be strong enough
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Evolution’s great...
Some of the biggest mysteries to what extent did language as a capacity shape humanity, and to what extent did humanity shape language? What came first, the vast number of possible scenarios we can envisage, or our ability to share them?
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Uncovering a radical...
the cooling bill while also providing power this is a flexible solar cell made at MIT that is so light and weight that it can be suspended on a soap bubble being that we can envisage lightweight inexpensive price guard solar sheets
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How Containerization...
Boxes, bales, crates handled piece by piece. What Malcolm envisaged would have saved him only a day, but it would have saved everyone else something like two weeks in loading and unloading the ship. On average, it was eight days
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Clara Sousa-Silva: The...
I was imagining a distant planet, a oxygen-poor tropical paradise with a phosphine-rich biosphere that we might one day be able to detect. But turns out phosphine was a little more exciting than I had initially envisaged
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The voices in my head PIPE...
not as an aberrant symptom of schizophrenia to be endured, but a complex, significant and meaningful experience to be explored. Together, we envisage and enact a society that understands and respects voice hearing,
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Parkinson's, depression...
disease but I haven't told you but there's also some evidence that we can might be able to help the repair of damaged areas of brain using electricity and this is something for the future to see if indeed we'd not only change the activity but also some of the reparative functions the brain can be harvested so I envisage that we're going to see a
Video examples
Martin Rees: Can we...
shouldn't accept even a one in a billion risk that human extinction would foreclose this immense potential. Some scenarios that have been envisaged may indeed be science fiction, but others may be disquietingly real. It's an important maxim that the unfamiliar
Video examples
Why I choose humanism...
The path of success is paved with risk and uncertainties. We have to muster the will and courage to do what people have never done. To think what people have never thought. Envisage what people have never imagined. Go to places human beings have not been to.
Video examples
The myth of Prometheus -...
His wife Mary envisaged Prometheus as a more cautionary figure and subtitled her novel The Modern Prometheus." This suggests the damage of corrupting the natural order and remains relevant to the ethical questions surrounding science and technology today.
Video examples
Mind-blowing stage...
We envisaged Carmen's hands rising out of Lake Constance, and throwing this deck of cards in the air and leaving them suspended between sky and sea. But this transient gesture, this flick of the wrists had to become a structure that would be strong enough
Video examples
Evolution’s great...
Some of the biggest mysteries to what extent did language as a capacity shape humanity, and to what extent did humanity shape language? What came first, the vast number of possible scenarios we can envisage, or our ability to share them?
Video examples
Uncovering a radical...
the cooling bill while also providing power this is a flexible solar cell made at MIT that is so light and weight that it can be suspended on a soap bubble being that we can envisage lightweight inexpensive price guard solar sheets
Video examples
How Containerization...
Boxes, bales, crates handled piece by piece. What Malcolm envisaged would have saved him only a day, but it would have saved everyone else something like two weeks in loading and unloading the ship. On average, it was eight days
Video examples
Clara Sousa-Silva: The...
I was imagining a distant planet, a oxygen-poor tropical paradise with a phosphine-rich biosphere that we might one day be able to detect. But turns out phosphine was a little more exciting than I had initially envisaged
Video examples
The voices in my head PIPE...
not as an aberrant symptom of schizophrenia to be endured, but a complex, significant and meaningful experience to be explored. Together, we envisage and enact a society that understands and respects voice hearing,
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Gary Hume
English Artist
Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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Luke Evans
Welsh Actor
One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.
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John Berger
English Artist
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Argentinian Poet
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
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David Furnish
Canadian Director
If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.
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Peter Maurer
Swiss Activist
Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.
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Tiger Woods
American Golfer
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
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Naftali Bennett
Israeli Politician
It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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Toni Kroos
German Athlete
I do not envisage going to Barcelona.
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Antony Beevor
British Historian
I can't envisage stopping writing.
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Gary Hume
English Artist
Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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Luke Evans
Welsh Actor
One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.
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John Berger
English Artist
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.
Quote examples
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentinian Poet
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
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David Furnish
Canadian Director
If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.
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Peter Maurer
Swiss Activist
Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.
Quote examples
Tiger Woods
American Golfer
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
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Naftali Bennett
Israeli Politician
It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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Toni Kroos
German Athlete
I do not envisage going to Barcelona.
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Antony Beevor
British Historian
I can't envisage stopping writing.
Example 1 of 10
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