envision
en-VIZH-unverbMeaning to picture something in the mind, especially something that could happen
Memory hook EN-VISION: see it IN your head. Before Omar saws a single board, he can see the whole treehouse in his head. To envision is to see it in your mind first.
Ada could envision the empty lot as a garden full of sunflowers.
In context Where others saw only a dusty old barn, Rosa could envision a bright little theater, and she spent the summer turning that picture into a plan.
Similar imagine, picture, visualize, foresee
Made in English in the early 1900s from en- (into) + vision, from Latin videre (to see).