/vɪˈʒʌn/ - [vishun] - vi•sion
We found 21 definitions of vision from 5 different sources.
NounPlural: visions |
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vision - a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death" | ||
imagery, mental imagery, imaging, imagination (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | ||
prevision a prophetic vision (as in a dream) | ||
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 | ||
vision - a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary" | ||
vision - the ability to see; the visual faculty | ||
sight, visual sense, visual modality | ||
sense modality, sensory system, modality the body's system of sense organs | ||
exteroception sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body | ||
stigmatism normal eyesight | ||
achromatic vision vision using the rods | ||
visual acuity, acuity, sharp-sightedness 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-sight, night vision, 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 | ||
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 a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream" |