vision
the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision;the vision of an entrepreneur.
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).
something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message.
a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory.
something seen; an object of sight.
a scene, person, etc., of extraordinary beauty: The sky was a vision of red and pink.
to envision, or picture mentally: She tried to vision herself in a past century.
Origin of vision
1synonym study For vision
Other words for vision
Other words from vision
- vi·sion·less, adjective
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How to use vision in a sentence
And so it was that the federal government did not shut down just when we all had visions of sugar plumbs dancing in our heads.
Her experiences are recorded in a prison diary in which she has visions that have significance for the whole community.
First Anglican Woman Bishop A Return to Christian Roots | Candida Moss | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNone of the artisans Hetflaisz spent time with were resentful of the artists whose visions they spend their days interpreting.
“I wake up and I pray, and then I see visions and I explain all those to my mom,” who would give her canvases to re-create them.
Lots of the characters on The Leftovers are plagued by dreams, and visions.
Carrie Coon on ‘The Leftovers,’ That Wild Finale, Her Apocalyptic Visions, and ‘Gone Girl’ | Marlow Stern | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousThere was but one man in the camp who did not coincide in those glittering visions.
For the first, and up to now as I write, the only, time in his life he realized the gorgeous visions of pallid years.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeHe seemed to have abandoned himself to a reverie, and to be seeing pleasing visions in the amber bead.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinThrough all these rapid visions there ran an undefined, uneasy consciousness of pain, which wearied and tormented him incessantly.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3) | Charles Dickens
British Dictionary definitions for vision
/ (ˈvɪʒən) /
the act, faculty, or manner of perceiving with the eye; sight
the image on a television screen
(as modifier): vision control
the ability or an instance of great perception, esp of future developments: a man of vision
a mystical or religious experience of seeing some supernatural event, person, etc: the vision of St John of the Cross
that which is seen, esp in such a mystical experience
(sometimes plural) a vivid mental image produced by the imagination: he had visions of becoming famous
a person or thing of extraordinary beauty
the stated aims and objectives of a business or other organization
(tr) to see or show in or as if in a vision
Origin of vision
1Derived forms of vision
- visionless, adjective
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