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Meaning of 'vision' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Vision [ v.]
- The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
- 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.
- That which is seen; an object of sight.
- 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.
- Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
2 . Vision [ v. t.]
- To see in a vision; to dream.

Meaning of 'vision' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . vision [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a vivid mental image
Example in sentence:
  • he had a vision of his own death
Meaning (2):
- a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance
Example in sentence:
  • he had a vision of the Virgin Mary
Meaning (3):
- the perceptual experience of seeing
Example in sentence:
  • he had a visual sensation of intense light;
  • the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision
Meaning (4):
- the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
Example in sentence:
  • imagination reveals what the world could be;
  • popular imagination created a world of demons

Nearby Words:

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