vision
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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 (“to see”) + action noun suffix -iō.
Inflected forms:
form: visions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: visions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: visioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: visioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: visioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sense or ability of sight.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Something seen; an object perceived visually.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […]For to a Viſion ſo apparant, Rumor / Cannot be mute[…]
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!
gloss: Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He tried drinking from the pool of water, but realized it was only a vision.
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.
gloss: Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
examples: 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.
gloss: A perceived potential future event or occurrence.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
examples: I know you wanted me to stay
But I can't ignore the crazy visions of me in LA
Gilead has always been a chilling vision of what America might become if right-wing theocrats seized absolute power and stripped women of all independence.
gloss: An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.
To achieve their vision, they enlisted the local architectural designer Marcie Banks of Clementine Construction.
gloss: General aspiration; forward-thinkingness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the—
gloss: A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He had a vision of the Virgin Mary.
gloss: A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Pre-recorded film or tape; footage.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To imagine something as if it were to be true.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To present as in a vision.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide with a vision.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: ken
vision
Antonyms: ablepsia
blindness
cecity
farsightedness
hyperopia
myopia
nearsightedness
purblindness
shortsightedness
Related words: eye
Derived words: 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
pick-by-vision
point of vision
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 loss
vision mixer
vision out
vision panel
vision purple
vision quest
vision statement
vision thing
visual
X-ray vision
prevision
envision
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