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Visualise vs Foresee - What's the difference?

visualise | foresee |

As verbs the difference between visualise and foresee

is that visualise is to envisage, or form a mental picture (of something) while foresee is to anticipate; to predict.

visualise

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(visualis)
  • To (l), or form a mental picture (of something).
  • To make (something) (l).
  • foresee

    English

    Verb

  • To anticipate; to predict.
  • * 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
  • "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
  • A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
  • (obsolete) To provide.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.

    See also

    * forsee English irregular verbs