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Definition of vision :
1. 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.
2. Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
3. That which is seen; an object of sight.
4. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
5. 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.
6. To see in a vision; to dream.
Synonyms:
resourcefulness, illusion, ken, figment, view, acumen, ghost, mountain, romance, imaginativeness, soothsaying, keenness, spate, plenty, reverie, raft, imagery, wad, wraith, see, resource, phantasm, foresight, tidy sum, fantasize, intuition, real, peck, quite a little, farsightedness, spirit, hallucination, fancy, good deal, visual sense, lot, pot, muckle, prescience, warlock, insight, light, mass, feature, perceiving, nightmare, eye, flock, penetration, pile, fiction, deal, mickle, conceive, thoughts, visualize, imagine, ecstasy, batch, picture, divination, slew, visual sensation, foreknowledge, stack, astuteness, imaging, phantasma, envisage, daydream, phantom, think, hatful, visual modality, envision, vaticination, passel, mess, day-dream, great deal, heap, specter, survey, mental imagery, trance, mint
biblical revelation (part of speech: noun)
discovery, gospel, apotheosis, materialization, oracle, inspiration, disclosure, evidence, revealment, apparition, emergence, issuance, prophecy, coming, manifestation, revelation, appearance, apocalypse, epiphany
imagination (part of speech: noun)
fantasy, idea, brainchild, contemplation, dream, conception, dreams, daydreams, creation, invention, creativity, supposition, thinking, imagination
vision (part of speech: noun)
outlook, sight, discernment, witnessing, seeing, inspection, eyesight, watching, regarding, viewpoint
idea (part of speech: noun)
concept, principle, image, reflection, thought, brainstorm, consideration, opinion, plan, theory, observation, inkling, perception, design, ideation, notion
Usage examples:
- He could not shut out the vision of that half- smile of the hour gone. - "The Grey Cloak", Harold MacGrath.
- The crowd gave way, as onward bore That vision from the Land of Dreams; Veil'd was the gentle rider's face, But not the two her path that grace. - "The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P.", Edward Bulwer Lytton.
- There's no change possible in the vision of the soul. - "Read-Aloud Plays", Horace Holley.