Definition of vision Vision

/vɪˈʒʌn/ - [vishun] - vi•sion

We found 21 definitions of vision from 5 different sources.

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What does vision mean?

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WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: visions

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"
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • vision (v.)
    The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
  • vision (v.)
    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.
  • vision (v.)
    That which is seen; an object of sight.
  • vision (v.)
    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.
  • vision (v.)
    Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
  • vision (v. t.)
    To see in a vision; to dream.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • vision
    The sense or ability of sight.
  • vision
    An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
  • vision
    Something imaginary one thinks one sees.

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  • vision, verb, present, 1st person singular of vision (infinitive).
  • vision, verb (infinitive).
  • vision, noun, singular of visions.

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