vid-, video-, vis-, -vision, -visional, -visionally, visuo-, vu-
(Latin: videre, "to see"; plus words with other related meanings: to notice, observe, look, perceive; seeing, seen, sight, view; manifest, manifested, reveal, revealed)
Although many of the words in this unit seem to be from other Latin origins, all of them are etymologically derived from the main videre, "to see" element.
clairvoyantly
A reference to someone who is supposedly able to see beyond the range of ordinary physical perception.
deja vu
1. The experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before.
2. A disquieting feeling of having been somewhere, or done something, before; even though one has not.
3. A subjective feeling that an experience which is occurring in the present for the first time has been experienced before.
enviable
1. Worthy of envy or very desirable: "She has an enviable reputation for honesty."
2. Likely to evoke feelings of envy or of being highly desirable: "This company is in the enviable position of having no real competitors."
If someone is in an enviable situation, others wish they were also in that situation.
enviableness
Highly desirable.
enviably
Arousing or likely to arouse envy; such as, people who wish that they had something that other person have: "The company had enviably high profits last year."
envious
Feeling, or showing, a desire to have what someone else has: "It is obvious that his fellow workers were envious of his success."
enviously
A reference to feeling, or showing, envy or jealousy: "They were looking enviously at his new car."
enviousness
A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another person.
envisage, envisages, envisaging
1. To conceive of and to contemplate a future possibility: "We envisage a time when jobs will be available for everyone who wants one."
2. To form a mental picture of something or somebody.
3. To conceive an image or a picture of something; especially, as a future possibility: "We are envisaging a world where all nations can get along with each other."
envisaged
Contemplated; visualized: "We envisaged an opportunity to finally buy our own home."
envision, envisions, envisioning, envisioned
1. To think of something that we can believe might exist or happen in the future: "We are envisioning many uses for our creations."
"After overcoming most of her health problems, she envisioned a better life for herself and her family."
2. Etymology: "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural", from Anglo-French visioun; Old French vision; which came from Latin visionem. visio, "act of seeing, sight, thing seen"; from the past participle stem of videre, "to see".
envy
1. The resentful or unhappy feeling of wanting another person's success, good fortune, qualities, or possessions.
2. Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another person (personified as one of the deadly sins).
3. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by someone else.
4. Etymology: from Old French envie, from Latin invidia, "envy, jealousy"; from invidus, "envious"; from invidere, "envy"; earlier, "look at (with malice), cast an evil eye upon"; from in-, "upon" + videre, "to see".
Esse quam videri.
To be rather than to seem.
Also translated, "To be rather than to seem to be." State motto of North Carolina, USA; and a motto of the National College of Chiropractic, Lombard, Illinois, USA.
Esto quod esse videris.
Be what you seem to be.
evidence
1. Something that gives a sign or proof of the existence or the truth of something, or that helps any one to come to a particular conclusion: "There is no evidence that this illness is related to diet."
2. The objects, or information, used to prove or to suggest the guilt of someone accused of a crime: "So far, the police have no evidence that he committed the robbery."
3. The oral, or written statements, of witnesses and other people involved in a trial or official inquiry.
4. A thing, or things, helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "appear, visible, visual, manifest, show, see, reveal, look":
blep-;
delo-;
demonstra-;
opt-;
-orama;
pare-;
phanero-;
phant-;
pheno-;
scopo-;
spec-;
vela-, veal-.
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