# vision
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English visioun, from Anglo-Norman visioun, from Old French vision, from Latin vīsiō (“vision, seeing”), noun of action from the perfect passive participle visus (“that which is seen”), from the verb videō (“I see”) + action noun suffix -iō.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: vĭzh'ən, IPA: /ˈvɪʒ.ən/, [ˈvɪʒ.n̩]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪʒən

### Noun

vision (countable and uncountable, plural visions)
* (uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
* (countable) Something seen; an object perceived visually.
** c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:[…] For to a Viſion ſo apparant, Rumor / Cannot be mute […]
** 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 7, in The Lonely Pyramid:It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!
* (countable) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
    He tried drinking from the pool of water, but realized it was only a vision.
** 2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 107:Visitations are a commonly reported afterlife phenomenon. For example, a dying patient has a vision of her mother, who has been dead for twenty years.
* (countable, by extension) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
** 1690, John Locke, “Of our Knowledge of the Existence of other Things”, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, volume II, London: A. Bettesworth et al., published 1735, book III, page 250:For having the Idea of any thing in our Mind, no more proves the Exiſtence of that Thing, than the Picture of a Man evidences his being in the World, or the Viſions of a Dream make thereby a true Hiſtory.
* (countable) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
    He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.
* (uncountable) General aspiration; forward-thinkingness.
** 1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair‎, performed by Tears for Fears:I can't stand this indecision Married with a lack of vision Everybody wants to rule the—
* (countable) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.
    He had a vision of the Virgin Mary.
* (countable) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
* (uncountable) Pre-recorded film or tape; footage.

#### Synonyms

* (ability): sight, eyesight, view, perception
* (something imaginary): apparition, hallucination, mirage
* (ideal or goal): dream, desire, aspiration, fantasy

#### Derived terms

* beatific vision
* binocular vision
* Brobdingnagian vision
* computer vision
* computer vision syndrome
* distance vision
* double vision
* field of vision
* heat vision
* Lilliputian vision
* near vision
* night vision
* peripheral vision
* personal vision
* point of vision
* prevision
* rear vision mirror
* rear-vision mirror
* Smell-O-Vision, smell-o-vision
* tunnel vision
* visibility
* visible
* visionary
* vision board
* vision boarding
* visioner
* vision-impaired
* vision impaired
* vision mixer
* vision out
* vision panel
* vision purple
* vision quest
* vision statement
* vision thing
* visual
* X-ray vision

#### Translations

Arabic: بَصَر f (baṣar), نَظَر (ar) m (naẓar)
Armenian: տեսողություն (hy) (tesoġutʻyun)
Asturian: vista (ast) f, visión f
Azerbaijani: görmə
Belarusian: зрок m (zrok)
Bulgarian: зре́ние (bg) n (zrénie)
Catalan: vista (ca) f, visió (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎠᎪᏩᏛᏗ (agowadvdi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 視力 / 视力 (zh) (shìlì), 視覺 / 视觉 (zh) (shìjué), 眼力 (zh) (yǎnlì)
Czech: zrak (cs) m, vidění (cs) n
Danish: syn (da) n
Dutch: zicht (nl) n, gezichtsvermogen (nl) n, zien (nl) n
Egyptian: (mꜣꜣ)
Esperanto: vidsenso
Estonian: nägemine
Finnish: näkö (fi), näkökyky (fi) (ability), näköaisti (fi) (sense)
French: vision (fr) f, vue (fr) f
Galician: vista (gl) f, visión (gl) f
Georgian: მხედველობა (mxedveloba)
German: Sicht (de) f, Sehvermögen (de) n, Sehkraft (de) f, Augenlicht (de) n
Greek: όραση (el) f (órasi)
Haryanvi: त्योर (tyor)
Hindi: दृष्टि (hi) f (dŕṣṭi), नज़र f (nazar)
Hungarian: látás (hu)
Indonesian: penglihatan (id), visi (id), visus (id) (ophthalmology)
Italian: vista (it) f, acutezza visiva f
Japanese: 視覚 (ja) (shikaku), 視力 (ja) (shiryoku)
Kazakh: көз (kk) (köz), көру (kk) (köru)
Korean: 시력(視力) (ko) (siryeok), 시각(視覺) (ko) (sigak)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بینایی (bînayî)
Kyrgyz: көрүү (ky) (körüü)
Latgalian: redzeiba
Latvian: redze (lv)
Lithuanian: rega (lt) f
Macedonian: вид (mk) m (vid), гледање n (gledanje)
Malayalam: കാഴ്ച (ml) (kāḻca)
Navajo: ootʼį́
Norwegian:
Bokmål: syn (no) n
Nynorsk: syn f or n
Persian: بینش (fa) (bineš), بینایی (fa) (binâyi)
Polish: widzenie (pl) n, wzrok (pl) m
Portuguese: vista (pt) f, visão (pt) f
Punjabi: ਨਜ਼ਰ (pa) f (nazar), ਨਿਗਾਹ f (nigāh)
Quechua: qhaway
Romanian: vedere (ro) f, văz (ro) n
Russian: зре́ние (ru) n (zrénije)
Sanskrit: दृष्टि (sa) f (dṛṣṭi)
Scottish Gaelic: fradharc m, lèirsinn f, sealladh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ви̑д m
Roman: vȋd (sh) m
Slovak: zrak (sk) m
Slovene: vid m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wiźenje n
Spanish: vista (es) f, visión (es) f
Swedish: syn (sv) c
Tajik: биниш (biniš), биноӣ (tg) (binoi), босира (bosira)
Telugu: దృష్టి (te) (dr̥ṣṭi)
Turkish: görme (tr)
Udmurt: адӟон (addźon)
Ukrainian: зір (uk) m (zir)
Uyghur: كۆرۈش (ug) (körüsh)
Uzbek: koʻrish (uz)
Vietnamese: thị giác (vi) :
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### Verb

vision (third-person singular simple present visions, present participle visioning, simple past and past participle visioned)
* (transitive) To imagine something as if it were to be true.
* (transitive) To present as in a vision.
* (transitive) To provide with a vision. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

#### Synonyms

* (imagine): envision

#### Derived terms

* envision
* prevision

#### Descendants

* → Urdu: ویژن

### Anagrams

* Voisin, inviso

## Finnish
### Noun

vision
* genitive singular of visio

### Anagrams

* voisin

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French vision, from Old French vision, borrowed from Latin vīsiō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vi.zjɔ̃/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔ̃
* Homophone: visions

### Noun

vision f (plural visions)
* vision, sight
    Synonym: vue

#### Derived terms

* champ de vision
* télévision
* visible
* vision centrale
* vision du monde
* vision périphérique
* visionnaire
* visionner

#### Descendants

* → Turkish: vizyon

### Further reading

* “vision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* voisin

## Middle English
### Noun

vision
* Alternative form of visioun

## Middle French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French vision, borrowed from Latin vīsiō.

### Noun

vision f (plural visions)
* vision, sight

#### Descendants

* French: vision

### References

* vision on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* visioun, visiun (Anglo-Norman)

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vīsiō.

### Noun

vision oblique singular, f (oblique plural visions, nominative singular vision, nominative plural visions)
* vision (supernatural sensory experience)

#### Descendants

* Middle French: vision
** French: vision
* → Middle English: visioun, vision, viseoun, vysion, vysyon, vysion, visione, visiun, visiowne, wision
** English: vision
** Scots: veesion

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (vision, supplement)
* visiun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

## Piedmontese
### Alternative forms

* visiun

### Etymology

From Latin vīsiō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /viˈzjuŋ/

### Noun

vision f (plural vision)
* vision

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɪˈɧuːn/

### Noun

vision c
* vision; something imaginary
* vision; a (grand) goal or idea