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See Vision

English

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. The sense or ability of sight.
  2. Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
  3. : He tried drinking from the pool of water, but realized it was only a vision.
  4. An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
  5. : He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.
  6. A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.
  7. : He had a vision of the Virgin Mary.
  8. A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.


Synonyms


Derived terms


Translations

  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|幻視|tr=genshi|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|幻覚|tr=genkaku|sc=Jpan}}
  • Portuguese: visão
  • Telugu: భ్రమ (bhrama)
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|vize|f}}
  • Dutch: {{t-|nl|visie|f}}, {{t+|nl|kijk|m}}
  • Finnish:
  • German: Traumbild , Vision
  • Greek: {{t+|el|όραμα|n|sc=Grek}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|目標|tr=mokuhyō|sc=Jpan}}, {{t|ja|展望|tr=tenbō|sc=Jpan}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|objetivo|m}}
  • Telugu: దర్శనం (darSanaM)
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|啓示|tr=keiji|sc=Jpan}}

See also


Verb

  1. To imagine something as if it were to be true.


Synonyms


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Finnish

Noun

vision

  1. {{fi-form of|type=noun|case=genitive|pl=singular|visio}}


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French

Noun

  1. vision, sight


Derived terms


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Vision \Vi"sion\, n. [OE. visioun, F. vision, fr. L. visio, from
videre, visum, to see: akin to Gr. ? to see, ? I know, and E.
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.
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Faith here is turned into vision there. --Hammond.
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2. (Physiol.) 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.
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3. That which is seen; an object of sight. --Shak.
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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.
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The baseless fabric of this vision. --Shak.
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No dreams, but visions strange. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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5. Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
--Locke.
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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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Vision \Vi"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Visioned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Visioning.]
To see in a vision; to dream.
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For them no visioned terrors daunt,
Their nights no fancied specters haunt. --Sir W.
Scott.
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WordNet vision
n 1: a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death"
2: the ability to see; the faculty of vision [syn: sight, {visual
sense}, visual modality]
3: the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged
from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual
sensation of intense light" [syn: visual sensation]
4: 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" [syn: imagination,
imaginativeness]
5: a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural
appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"
Moby Dictionary
Masan , Vorstellung , apocalypse , apparition , appearance , astral ,
astral spirit , bad dream , bamboozlement , banshee , befooling ,
bluffing , brainchild , brown study , bubble , calculated deception ,
chimera , circumvention , conceive , concept , conception ,
conceptualization , conning , control , daydream , deceiving ,
deception , deceptiveness , defrauding , delirium , delusion ,
delusiveness , departed spirit , disembodied spirit , dream , dupery ,
duppy , dybbuk , eidetic image , eidolon , enmeshment , ensnarement ,
entanglement , entrapment , envisage , envisaging , envision ,
envisioning , epitome , eye , eyeful , eyesight , fallaciousness ,
fallacy , false image , falseness , fancy , fantasque , fantasy ,
feature , fiction , figment , figure , flimflam , flimflammery ,
fond illusion , fooling , foresight , foresightedness , form , ghost ,
grateful dead , guide , hallucination , hant , haunt , hoodwinking ,
idea , idle fancy , idolum , illusion , image , imagery , imagery study ,
imagination , imagine , imaging , imagining , imagism ,
imagistic poetry , immateriality , incorporeal , incorporeal being ,
incorporeity , incubus , insight , insubstantial image , invention ,
kidding , larva , lemures , lifelike image , maggot , make-believe ,
manes , materialization , mental image , mental picture ,
mental representation , mirage , muse , myth , nightmare ,
objectification , oni , oracle , outwitting , overreaching , perception ,
perspective , phantasm , phantasma , phantasmagoria , phantom , phasm ,
phenomenon , picture , picturing , pipe dream , plan , poem ,
poetic imagery , poltergeist , presence , prophecy , putting on ,
realize , revenant , reverie , romance , scheme , seeing ,
self-deception , shade , shadow , shape , shrouded spirit , sick fancy ,
sight , snow job , song and dance , specter , spectral ghost , spirit ,
spoofery , spoofing , spook , sprite , subterfuge , swindling ,
theophany , thick-coming fancies , thing of beauty , trickiness ,
tricking , trip , understanding , unsubstantiality , vapor ,
victimization , view , visual image , visualization , visualize ,
waking dream , walking dead man , wandering soul , whim , whimsy ,
wildest dream , wildest dreams , willful misconception ,
wishful thinking , word-painting , wraith , zombie


Vision (Luke 1:22), a vivid apparition, not a dream (comp. Luke 24:23; Acts 26:19; 2 Cor. 12:1).
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