Envisioned - is this really a word?

[Xmasbabyxmas]

This really jars with me. Since when did envisioned become a word? Is it a word? I shudder and scream "envisaged" inwardly when I see it. Is it me? Please educate and inform me.

[Phillippeflop]

Envisioned is a word isn’t it? Like this is not what I envisioned

[DullGret]

@Phillippeflop

Envisioned is a word isn’t it? Like this is not what I envisioned

I would say ‘envisaged’ there.

[Vroomfondleswaistcoat]

It's been a word for forever as far as I am concerned. Just another use of 'vision'. Looks like the first use in print was in the 1920s, so a century ago. But used by Lytton Strachey, whose usage of the English language could be - strained at times.

[SwedishEdith]

I'd say envisage as well but apparently it is a word with a subtly different meaning.

Envision means able to see what you imagine rather than just imagine.

[SwedishEdith]

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/envisage#:~:text=Both%20words%20are%20very%20similar,but%20not%20necessarily%20see%20it.

[BewitchedorBewildered]

They are both words. Envision implies a greater degree of material certainty whilst envisage is more 'to imagine'.

[Xmasbabyxmas]

Ah lovely, thanks all. I like the subtle difference in meaning. I would have always used envisaged and suddenly I'm seeing envisioned everywhere. Perhaps something that's increasing in usage?

[Joolsin]

Envisaged has been the standard word for as long as I can remember, but envisioned has been creeping insidiously across the Atlantic, I think, in recent years. I hate it!!

[Xmasbabyxmas]

I hate it too @Joolsin but at least now I can hate it better informed 😂

[BewitchedorBewildered]

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the earliest known use of the verb was in 1921 by Lytton Strachey, English author, champagne socialist and a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group.

[ColleenDonaghy]

@BewitchedorBewildered

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the earliest known use of the verb was in 1921 by Lytton Strachey, English author, champagne socialist and a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group.

No you're surely mistaken, a MN user doesn't like it so it must be American.