ideate
Verb
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Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case (synset 201639939)
"Can you conceive of him as the president?"is a type of: create by mental act, create mentally - create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's handssubtypes:
- envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize - imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- visualise, visualize - form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract
- envision, foresee - picture to oneself; imagine possible
- fantasise, fantasize - portray in the mind
- prefigure - imagine or consider beforehand
- think - imagine or visualize
- fantasise, fantasize, fantasy - indulge in fantasies
- daydream, dream, stargaze, woolgather - have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
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