Definition of Picturing

1. Noun. Visual imagery.

Exact synonyms: Envisioning
Generic synonyms: Imagery, Imagination, Imaging, Mental Imagery
Derivative terms: Envision, Envision, Picture

2. Noun. Visual representation as by photography or painting.
Exact synonyms: Pictorial Representation
Generic synonyms: Representation
Specialized synonyms: Delineation, Depiction, Portrayal, Imaging, Tomography, Photography, Picture Taking
Derivative terms: Picture

Definition of Picturing

1. Verb. (present participle of picture) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Picturing

1. picture [v] - See also: picture

Lexicographical Neighbors of Picturing

picturebooks
pictured
picturegoer
picturegoers
pictureless
picturephone
picturephones
picturer
picturers
pictures
picturesque
picturesquely
picturesqueness
picturesquenesses
picturesquish
picturing
picturization
picturizations
picturize
picturized
picturizes
picturizing
picul
piculet
piculets
piculs
picus
piddle away
piddled

Literary usage of Picturing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay by Jeremy Taylor (1851)
"Of Picturing God the Father, and the Holy Trinity. AGAINST all the authorities almost, which are or might be brought to prove the unlawfulness of picturing ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The influence of the religious drama was felt here, and the popular feeling against Judaism registered itself in art by picturing Judaism under the figure ..."

3. Memoirs, Official and Personal: With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1846)
"Brief review of the position of the American Indian—Difficulty of picturing the past—Humble attempt to overcome this difficulty—The hunter and his prey— The ..."

4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1828)
"As an appendage to this, we greatly reprove the custom of the church of Rome, in picturing God the Father, and the most holy and undivided Trinity: which, ..."

5. The Primary Worker and Work by Marion Thomas (1920)
"Story-telling is word-picturing. 1. The appeal and power of the story. ... Word-picturing is an art and as such has a technique of its own. ..."

6. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay by Jeremy Taylor (1851)
"Of Picturing God the Father, and the Holy Trinity. AGAINST all the authorities almost, which are or might be brought to prove the unlawfulness of picturing ..."

7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The influence of the religious drama was felt here, and the popular feeling against Judaism registered itself in art by picturing Judaism under the figure ..."

8. Memoirs, Official and Personal: With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1846)
"Brief review of the position of the American Indian—Difficulty of picturing the past—Humble attempt to overcome this difficulty—The hunter and his prey— The ..."

9. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1828)
"As an appendage to this, we greatly reprove the custom of the church of Rome, in picturing God the Father, and the most holy and undivided Trinity: which, ..."

10. The Primary Worker and Work by Marion Thomas (1920)
"Story-telling is word-picturing. 1. The appeal and power of the story. ... Word-picturing is an art and as such has a technique of its own. ..."

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