Other forms: visualised, visualising, visualises
To visualise is to form a clear picture of something in your mind. Visualise the route, hard to visualise, visualise success.
How well people can do it varies enormously, and some cannot at all — aphantasia is the name for having no mind's eye, and it was only widely recognised in the last decade. In data work, to visualise is to turn numbers into a picture. Note the American spelling visualize with a z.
1verbvisualiseTo form a clear picture of something in your mind.
“Close your eyes and try to visualise the room you grew up in.”
2verbturnTo turn data into a picture.
“The app visualises your spending as a colourful chart.”
visualise is a picturing.
Also accepted in games: visualize
Visual plus -ise, from Latin visus, sight, from videre, to see. Vision and visit come from the same seeing.
Proto-Indo-European
*weyd-
Latin
vīsuālis — of sight
French
visuel
Middle English
visual
English
visual
English, today
visualise
Built from
From visual + -ise (a variant of -ize). visual comes from Middle English visual, from French visuel, visual and directly from Latin vīsuālis (“of sight”), from vīsus + -ālis, from vidēre (“to see, perceive; look (at)”); see visage. by surface analysis, vīsus + -ual.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA