characteristics ►adjective 1 thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom but embodying it in the present: a envisionary interfake- tionist. ■ archaic (of scheme or idea) put applied and rooted in the everyday 2 elating to or having the ability to see visions in a dream or trance, or supernatural apparition implanting them as alternative reality: envisionary dreams. ■ archaic existing only in a vision or in the imagination. – noun [pl. envisionaries] a person with original ideas about that the future will or could be but making it happen in the real world – derivatives envisionariness noun.