Picturizing

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Creating or representing something in the form of a picture or image
2. Depicting a scene or subject visually as if in a photograph or painting
3. Transforming an idea, event, or object into a visual representation

Etymology: "Picturizing" is the present participle of "picturize," a verb built from the noun "picture" with the suffix "-ize," which turns a noun into a verb meaning to make it, render it, or treat it in a certain way. So the verb in effect means to turn something into a picture, that is, to depict it visually. The "-ize" ending is a long-standing English pattern, borrowed through Latin and Greek, and it has been attached to all sorts of native and borrowed nouns to form verbs. "Picture" itself came into English from Latin "pictura," from "pingere," to paint, so the verb keeps the idea of painting at its core even though it is now often used for any visual rendering, such as portraying a scene in writing or imagining something vividly.

Synonyms: visualizing, imagining