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VISION
imagination, imaginativeness, vision
(noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; “popular imagination created a world of demons”; “imagination reveals what the world could be”
sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality
(noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty
vision, visual sensation
(noun) the perceptual experience of seeing; “the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision”; “he had a visual sensation of intense light”
vision
(noun) a vivid mental image; “he had a vision of his own death”
vision
(noun) a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; “he had a vision of the Virgin Mary”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
vision (countable and uncountable, plural visions)
(uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
(countable) Something seen; an object perceived visually.
(countable) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
(countable, by extension) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
(countable) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
(countable) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.
(countable) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
(uncountable) Pre-recorded film or tape; footage.
Synonyms
• (ability): sight, eyesight, view, perception
• (something imaginary): apparition, hallucination, mirage
• (ideal or goal): dream, desire, aspiration, fantasy
Verb
vision (third-person singular simple present visions, present participle visioning, simple past and past participle visioned)
(transitive) To imagine something as if it were to be true.
(transitive) To present as in a vision.
(transitive) To provide with a vision.
Synonyms
• (imagine): envision
Anagrams
• Voisin, inviso
Source: Wiktionary
Vi"sion, n. Etym: [OE. visioun, F. vision, fr. L. visio, from videre, visum, to see: akin to Gr. wit. See Wit, v., and cf. Advice, Clairvoyant, Envy, Evident, Provide, Revise, Survey, View, Visage, Visit.]
1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight. Faith here is turned into vision there. Hammond.
2. (Physiol.)
Definition: The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.
3. That which is seen; an object of sight. Shak.
4. Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah. The baseless fabric of this vision. Shak. No dreams, but visions strange. Sir P. Sidney.
5. Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy. Locke. Arc of vision (Astron.), the arc which measures the least distance from the sun at which, when the sun is below the horizon, a star or planet emerging from his rays becomes visible.
– Beatific vision (Theol.), the immediate sight of God in heaven.
– Direct vision (Opt.), vision when the image of the object falls directly on the yellow spot (see under Yellow); also, vision by means of rays which are not deviated from their original direction.
– Field of vision, field of view. See under Field.
– Indirect vision (Opt.), vision when the rays of light from an object fall upon the peripheral parts of the retina.
– Reflected vision, or Refracted vision, vision by rays reflected from mirrors, or refracted by lenses or prisms, respectively.
– Vision purple. (Physiol.) See Visual purple, under Visual.
Vi"sion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Visioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Visioning.]
Definition: To see in a vision; to dream. For them no visioned terrors daunt, Their nights no fancied specters haunt. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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