picturing has definitions from the field of psychology
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[ noun ] (psychology) visual imagery

Synonyms

envisioning

Related terms

imagination envision

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[ noun ] visual representation as by photography or painting

Used in print

(John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)

A word taken in its dictionary meaning , a photographic image of a recognizable object , the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings .

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