Dictionary Definition
vision
Noun
1 a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his
own death"
3 the perceptual experience of seeing; "the
runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a
visual sensation of intense light" [syn: visual
sensation]
4 the formation of a mental image of something
that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses;
"popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination
reveals what the world could be" [syn: imagination, imaginativeness]
5 a religious or mystical experience of a
supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- The sense or ability of sight.
- Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
- He tried drinking from the pool of water, but realized it was only a vision.
- An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
- He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.
- A religious or
mystical experience of
a supernatural
appearance.
- He had a vision of the Virgin Mary.
- A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
Synonyms
- sense ability sight, eyesight, view, perception
- sense something imaginary apparition, hallucination, mirage
- sense ideal or goal dream, desire, aspiration, fantasy
Derived terms
Translations
sight
- Czech: zrak, vidění
- Dutch: zicht , gezichtsvermogen
- Finnish: näkö, näkökyky
- German: Sehkraft , Sicht
- Greek: όραση
- Japanese: 視覚
- Polish: widzenie
- Portuguese: visão
- Scottish Gaelic: radharc
- Telugu: దృష్టి (dRshTi)
omething imaginary
- Czech: vidění
- Dutch: droombeeld , visioen , geestesverschijning
- Finnish: näky
- German: Vision
- Japanese: 幻視, 幻覚
- Portuguese: visão
- Telugu: భ్రమ (bhrama)
ideal or goal
a religious or mystical experience
- Japanese: qualifier order by God 啓示
See also
Verb
- To imagine something as if it were to be true.
Synonyms
Finnish
Noun
visionFrench
Noun
fr-noun mDerived terms
Extensive Definition
Vision most often refers to visual
perception, but frequently refers to vision
(spirituality) (i.e., inspirational experiences or perceptions
believed to come from a deity or other supernatural source).
It may also refer to:
Buildings
- Vision Brisbane, a proposed tower of 80 floors
- The Vision Tower, a tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Music
- Visions (Atreyu album), an album by the American metalcore band Atreyu
- Visions (Stratovarius album), an album by the Finnish power-metal band Stratovarius
- Visions (Paul Field album), an album by Paul Field
- Visions-A Tribute to Burzum, a tribute album to the band Burzum
- Visions (Sun Ra album), a 1978 album by Sun Ra and Walt Dickerson
Comics & Art
- Vision (Timely Comics), a 1940s comic book character
- Vision (Marvel Comics), a Marvel comics superhero, member of the superhero team, the Avengers
- Visions (Magic: The Gathering) an expansion to the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game
- Vision audio and MIDI sequencing software by Opcode Systems
Technology
- Vision (IRC), an IRC client
- VisiOn, an early GUI system for the IBM PC from VisiCorp
- Vision (PMS), a medical records management package from In Practice Systems, UK
Companies
- Visions, a website development firm in Norwich
- Vision Industries, an American supercar manufacturer
- Vision Skateboards, a pro skateboard company
- Vision Australia a not for profit charity organization.
- Vision, a non-profit, non-partisan policy think tank based in Rome, Italy.
Various
- Vision, a brand of pyroceramic cookware related to Corningware
- BT Vision is a digital terrestrial television service provided in the United Kingdom
- VisionTV, a Canadian cable television specialty channel
- Visions, a Chicago area science fiction convention.
- Vision (nightclub), a nightclub in Chicago.
- Goal (management) or vision, a euphemism for planning in commerce and in sport
- Vision statement, a corporate long-term goal
See also
- Visions Federal Credit Union, a bank
- Vision for Space Exploration, a space exploration program.
- AAA Vision, a home-built aircraft design by American Affordable Aircraft
- A.D. Vision, an American multimedia entertainment company
- Computer vision, a field of artificial intelligence
- MSMS Vision, a student newspaper
- NEP Visions, an independent outside broadcast facility company in the UK
- New Vision, one of two main national newspapers in Uganda.
- World Vision, an Christian relief and development organization
- York Vision, a student newspaper based at the University of York, England
vision in Danish: Vision
vision in German: Vision
vision in Spanish: Visión (desambiguación)
vision in French: Vision (homonymie)
vision in Italian: Visione
vision in Japanese: ビジョン
vision in Slovak: Videnie
vision in Albanian: Vizioni
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Masan,
Vorstellung,
apocalypse, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, bad dream,
bamboozlement,
banshee, befooling, bluffing, brainchild, brown study,
bubble, calculated
deception, chimera,
circumvention,
conceive, concept, conception, conceptualization,
conning, control, daydream, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delirium, delusion, delusiveness, departed
spirit, disembodied spirit, dream, dupery, duppy, dybbuk, eidetic image, eidolon, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, envisage, envisaging, envision, envisioning, epitome, eye, eyeful, eyesight, fallaciousness, fallacy, false image, falseness, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, feature, fiction, figment, figure, flimflam, flimflammery, fond
illusion, fooling,
foresight, foresightedness,
form, ghost, grateful dead, guide, hallucination, hant, haunt, hoodwinking, idea, idle fancy, idolum, illusion, image, imagery, imagery study, imagination, imagine, imaging, imagining, imagism, imagistic poetry,
immateriality,
incorporeal,
incorporeal being, incorporeity, incubus, insight, insubstantial image,
invention, kidding, larva, lemures, lifelike image,
maggot, make-believe,
manes, materialization, mental
image, mental picture, mental representation, mirage, muse, myth, nightmare, objectification,
oni, oracle, outwitting, overreaching, perception, perspective, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantom, phasm, phenomenon, picture, picturing, pipe dream,
plan, poem, poetic imagery, poltergeist, presence, prophecy, putting on, realize, revenant, reverie, romance, scheme, seeing, self-deception, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, sick
fancy, sight, snow job,
song and dance, specter,
spectral ghost, spirit,
spoofery, spoofing, spook, sprite, subterfuge, swindling, theophany, thick-coming
fancies, thing of beauty, trickiness, tricking, trip, understanding, unsubstantiality,
vapor, victimization, view, visual image, visualization, visualize, waking dream,
walking dead man, wandering soul, whim, whimsy, wildest dream, wildest
dreams, willful misconception, wishful thinking, word-painting,
wraith, zombie