vision

[ vizh-uhn ]

/ ˈvɪʒ ən /

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noun

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.

computer vision.

verb (used with object)

to envision, or picture mentally: She tried to vision herself in a past century.

OTHER WORDS FOR vision

2 perception, discernment.

4 apparition, phantasm, chimera.

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Origin of vision

1250–1300; Middle English <Latin vīsiōn- (stem of vīsiō) a seeing, view, equivalent to vīs(us), past participle of vidēre to see + -iōn--ion

synonym study for vision

4. See dream.

OTHER WORDS FROM vision

vi·sion·less, adjective

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How to use vision in a sentence

My vision for this department since I got to the museum was always about diversifying.
Plight at the Museum|Jen Trolio|November 20, 2020|Vox
That service was a placeholder for what Sanchez said was the broader company vision.
Index ventures into Latin America to back Sofia, a Mexico City-based telemedicine and health insurer|Jonathan Shieber|November 20, 2020|TechCrunch
For those who experience color vision deficiency, we added the ability to edit the UI palette.
‘Demon’s Souls’ devs considered, and ultimately left out, an easy mode. Here’s why.|Elise Favis|November 18, 2020|Washington Post
It is machine learning computer vision, or data science–everybody is doing it.
Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society|Jason Sparapani|November 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review

Many of the new and returning senators and representatives have very different — and perhaps competing — visions for what it means to be a woman in Congress, which is why, for example, a number of female candidates ran to unseat a female incumbent.
How A Record Number Of Republican Women Will — And Won’t — Change Congress|Meredith Conroy|November 16, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
It was this absence of interest after close upon a year in the country that appalled him as much as his inner visioning.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
She was feeling the reaction from her late mood of exaltation, of dramatic visioning of poignant past experiences.
The Beauty|Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
I laid my head in my hands and mused before my lonely fire, drinking much and visioning my ruin.
The O'Ruddy|Stephen Crane
He had tried feebly to prefigure this face, but never had his visioning approached the actual in its majestic, still beauty.
Bunker Bean|Harry Leon Wilson
To his cousin Roger, echoed Joy, visioning the corporal, why should it matter to him?
The Lady of North Star|Ottwell J. Binns

British Dictionary definitions for vision

vision

/ (ˈvɪʒən) /

noun

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 developmentsa man of vision

a mystical or religious experience of seeing some supernatural event, person, etcthe 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 imaginationhe had visions of becoming famous

a person or thing of extraordinary beauty

the stated aims and objectives of a business or other organization

verb

(tr) to see or show in or as if in a vision

Derived forms of vision

visionless, adjective

Word Origin for vision

C13: from Latin vīsiō sight, from vidēre to see

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