vision

vi·sion  (vzhn)

n.

1.

a. The faculty of sight; eyesight: poor vision.

b. Something that is or has been seen.

2. Unusual competence in discernment or perception; intelligent foresight: a leader of vision.

3. The manner in which one sees or conceives of something.

4. A mental image produced by the imagination.

5. The mystical experience of seeing as if with the eyes the supernatural or a supernatural being.

6. A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.

tr.v. vi·sioned, vi·sion·ing, vi·sions

To see in or as if in a vision; envision.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vsi, vsin-, from vsus, past participle of vidre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]

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vision·al adj.

vision·al·ly adv.

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vision

Noun

1. the ability to see

2. a vivid mental image produced by the imagination: I kept having visions of him being tortured

3. a hallucination caused by divine inspiration, madness, or drugs: visions of God

4. great perception of future developments: what he had instead of charisma was vision

5. the image on a television screen

6. a person or thing of extraordinary beauty [Latin visio sight, from videre to see]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	vision - a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death" imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination - the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" prevision - a prophetic vision (as in a dream) retrovision - a vision of events in the distant past
	2.	vision - the ability to see; the visual faculty visual modality, visual sense, sight visual system - the sensory system for vision sense modality, sensory system, modality - a particular sense exteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body stigmatism - normal eyesight achromatic vision - vision using the rods acuity, sharp-sightedness, visual acuity - sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) binocular vision - vision involving the use of both eyes central vision - vision using the fovea and parafovea; the middle part of the visual field chromatic vision, color vision, trichromacy - the normal ability to see colors distance vision - vision for objects that a 20 feet or more from the viewer eyesight, sightedness, seeing - normal use of the faculty of vision monocular vision - vision with only one eye near vision - vision for objects 2 feet or closer to the viewer night vision, night-sight, scotopic vision, twilight vision - the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight) daylight vision, photopic vision - normal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived peripheral vision - vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina
	3.	vision - the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" visual sensation aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression - an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of touch"
	4.	vision - 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" imagination, imaginativeness creative thinking, creativeness, creativity - the ability to create fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings fancy - a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination fantasy, phantasy - imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy" dreaming, dream - imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction
	5.	vision - a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary" experience - an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention"

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vision

noun 1. image, idea, dream, plans, hopes, prospect, ideal, concept, fancy, fantasy, conception, delusion, daydream, reverie, flight of fancy, mental picture, pipe dream, imago Psychoanalysis castle in the air, fanciful notion

noun 2. hallucination, illusion, apparition, revelation, ghost, phantom, delusion, spectre, mirage, wraith, chimera, phantasm, eidolon

noun 3. sight, seeing, eyesight, view, eyes, perception

noun 4. foresight, imagination, perception, insight, awareness, inspiration, innovation, creativity, intuition, penetration, inventiveness, shrewdness, discernment, prescience, perceptiveness, farsightedness, breadth of view

noun 5. picture, dream, sight, delight, beauty, joy, sensation, spectacle, knockout (informal) beautiful sight, perfect picture, feast for the eyes, sight for sore eyes, pearler Austral. (slang) beaut Austral., N.Z. (slang)

Translations

vision [ˈvɪʒən] n (= sight) → vista (= foresight), (in dream) → visión f

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vision [ˈvɪʒən] n (= sight) → vue f, vision f (= foresight), (in dream) → vision

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vision [ˈvɪʒən] n (sight) → Sicht f;

(foresight) → Weitblick m;

(in dream) → Vision f

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vision [ˈvɪʒən] n (= sight) → vista (= foresight), (in dream) → visione f