visualization

verb (used without object), vis·u·al·ized, vis·u·al·iz·ing.

1. to recall or form mental images or pictures.

verb (used with object), vis·u·al·ized, vis·u·al·iz·ing.

2. to make visual or visible.
3. to form a mental image of.
4. to make perceptible to the mind or imagination.

noun

1. the act or an instance of visualizing
2. a technique involving focusing on positive mental images in order to achieve a particular goal

verb

1. to form a mental image of (something incapable of being viewed or not at that moment visible)
2. med to view by means of an X-ray the outline of (a bodily organ, structure, or part)

n.

1881, noun of action from visualize.

v.

1817, first attested in, and perhaps coined by, Coleridge; see visual + -ize. Related: Visualized; visualizing.