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vi⋅sion⋅ar⋅y

[vizh-uh-ner-ee] adjective, noun, plural -ar⋅ies.
–adjective
1. given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes: a visionary enthusiast.
2. given to or concerned with seeing visions.
3. belonging to or seen in a vision.
4. unreal; imaginary: visionary evils.
5. purely idealistic or speculative; impractical; unrealizable: a visionary scheme.
6. of, pertaining to, or proper to a vision.
–noun
7. a person of unusually keen foresight.
8. a person who sees visions.
9. a person who is given to audacious, highly speculative, or impractical ideas or schemes; dreamer.

Origin:
1640–50; vision + -ary


vi⋅sion⋅ar⋅i⋅ness, noun


1. impractical, impracticable. 4. fancied, illusory, chimerical. 5. unrealistic.


1. practical.
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Word Origin & History

visionary  (adj.)
"able to see visions," 1651, from vision (q.v.). Meaning "impractical" is attested from 1727. The noun is attested from 1702, from the adj., originally "one who indulges in impractical fantasies."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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