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VISUALIZATION.
2. With a and pi. A mental picture or vision.
1841 Carlvle Misc. Ess. (1857) IV. 242 We must..cateh
a few more visualities. 1845 — Crom-well L 154 We have
a pleasant visuality of an old summer afternoon *in the
Queen s Court ' two hundred years ago.
Visualization (vi:,:5i«abiz?ij3n, vi:z-). [f.
next + -ATION.] The action or fact of visualizing
the power or process of forming a mental picture
or vision of something not actually present to the
sight ; a picture thus formed.
1883 Academy 14 July 31 Investigations into the phenomena
of visualisation. 1S84 Gurney & Myers in igth Cent.
July 72 In the next stage of visualisation the percipient
sees a face or figure projected or dejected, as it were, on
some convenient surface. 1894 Athemeum 10 Nov. 638/2
[The book had] a power of visualization that gave it a claim
to real originality.
Visualize (vi*5i«al3iz, vi*z-;,z/.
ise, [f. Visual a. + -ize.]
Also visual-
1. trans. To form a mental vision, image, or
picture of (something not visible or present to the
sight, or of an abstraction) ; to make visible to the
mind or imagination.
Freq. in recent use, sometimes in connexion with special
branches of p>iychology or psychical research.
1817, 1831 [impli''d in V isualized ^^\. a.} 1863 Tvndall
Heat X. 350 We can hardly help attempting to visualise the
atomsthemselves. 1899 J. Smith Chr. Charac, 165 Bunyan,
in his immortal allegory, visualised the progress from justification
to glory.
2. absol, or intr. To form a mental picture of
something not visible or present, or of an abstract
thing, etc. ;
to construct a visual image or images
in the mind.
1871 J. A. SvMONDs in H. F. Brown Biog. (1895) II. 52 For
numbers I have.. no head. 1 do not visualise except in the
most rudimentary way. 188a Macm. Mag, XLVI. 485 This
answers to the way in which I visualize for them. 1897 A.
Lang Dreams ital
node, because it was erroneously supposed to be the seat of
the life of the plant.
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