picturing

Other forms of picturing

plural

picturings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about picturing

What does picturing mean?

picturing means "visual imagery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in picturing?

picturing has 3 syllables: pic-tu-ring. The stress falls on "pic". In IPA it is /ˈpɪktʃɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for picturing?

Close synonyms include envisioning, pictorial representation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is picturing a common word?

picturing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.