visualize

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: vis=u=al=ize

CIDE DICTIONARY

visualize, v. t. 

•  To make visual, or visible.  [1913 Webster]
•  to see in the imagination; to form a mental image of.  [1913 Webster]

  "No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly visualize them."  [1913 Webster]

visualize, v. i. 

 To form a mental image of something not present before the eye at the time.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

visualize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 make visible esp. to one's mind (a thing not visible to the eye).
2 make visible to the eye.

Derivative

visualizable adj. visualization n.

THESAURUS

visualize

anticipate, apprehend, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, conceive, conjure up, contemplate, divine, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, foreknow, image, imagine, just see, look upon, objectify, picture, prevision, realize, regard, represent, see, summon up, view, vision

ROGET THESAURUS

visualize

Imagination

VB imagine, fancy, conceive, idealize, realize, dream, dream of, dream up, give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate, improvise, strike out something new, set one's wits to work, strain one's invention, crack one's invention, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains, excogitate, brainstorm, give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy, indulge in reverie, visualize, envision, conjure up a vision, fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself, vorstellen, float in the mind, suggest itself.