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ən noun
1.
the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
2.
the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur.
3.
an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency: a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision. Compare hallucination ( def 1 ).
4.
something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message.
5.
a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory.
6.
something seen; an object of sight.
7.
a scene, person, etc., of extraordinary beauty: The sky was a vision of red and pink.
verb (used with object)
9.
to envision: She tried to vision herself in a past century.
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vision (ˈvɪʒən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act, faculty, or manner of perceiving with the eye; sight |
| 2. | a. the image on a television screen |
| b. (as modifier): vision control | |
| 3. | the ability or an instance of great perception, esp of future developments: a man of vision |
| 4. | a mystical or religious experience of seeing some supernatural event, person, etc: the vision of St John of the Cross |
| 5. | that which is seen, esp in such a mystical experience |
| 6. | (sometimes plural) a vivid mental image produced by the imagination: he had visions of becoming famous |
| 7. | a person or thing of extraordinary beauty |
| 8. | the stated aims and objectives of a business or other organization |
| —vb | |
| 9. | (tr) to see or show in or as if in a vision |
| [C13: from Latin vīsiō sight, from vidēre to see] | |
| 'visionless | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
vision
late 13c., "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural," from Anglo-Fr. visioun, O.Fr. vision, from L. visionem (nom. visio) "act of seeing, sight, thing seen," from pp. stem of videre "to see," from PIE base *weid- "to know, to see" (cf. Skt. veda "I know;" Avestan vaeda "I know;" Gk.
oida, Doric woida "I know," idein "to see;" O.Ir. fis "vision," find "white," i.e. "clearly seen," fiuss "knowledge;" Welsh gwyn, Gaulish vindos, Breton gwenn "white;" Goth., O.Swed., O.E. witan "to know;" Goth. weitan "to see;" Eng. wise, Ger. wissen "to know;" Lith. vysti "to see;" Bulg. vidya "I see;" Pol. widzieć "to see," wiedzieć "to know;" Rus. videt' "to see," vest' "news," O.Russ. vedat' "to know"). The meaning "sense of sight" is first recorded late 15c. Meaning "statesman-like foresight, political sagacity" is attested from 1926.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
vision vi·sion (vĭzh'ən)
n.
The faculty of sight; eyesight.
The manner in which an individual sees or conceives of something.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Vision definition
(Luke 1:22), a vivid apparition, not a dream (comp. Luke 24:23; Acts 26:19; 2 Cor. 12:1).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
His vision of a new mental universe held together by post-printing technology now looks dated.
In many ways it's a beautiful and comforting vision.
There is no such thing as a unique scientific vision, any more than there is a unique poetic vision.
Vision in the affected eye or eyes slowly gets worse.
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