Vision
['vɪʒ(ə)n] or ['vɪʒən]
Definition
(noun.) the perceptual experience of seeing; 'the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision'; 'he had a visual sensation of intense light'.
(noun.) a vivid mental image; 'he had a vision of his own death'.
(noun.) a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; 'he had a vision of the Virgin Mary'.
Edited by Faye--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
(v.) 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.
(v.) That which is seen; an object of sight.
(v.) 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.
(v.) Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
(v. t.) To see in a vision; to dream.
Edited by Janet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sight, seeing.[2]. Apparition, ghost, spectre, phantom, phantasm, chimera, illusion, supernatural appearance.
Checker: Vivian
Definition
n. the act or sense of seeing: sight: anything seen: anything imagined to be seen: a divine revelation: an apparition: anything imaginary.—v.t. to see as a vision: to present as in a vision.—n. (Scot.) Visie (viz′i) a close look at anything.—adj. Vis′ional pertaining to a vision not real.—adv. Vis′ionally.—n. Vis′ionariness.—adj. Vis′ionary affected by visions: apt to see visions imaginative: existing in imagination only: not real.—n. one who sees visions: one who forms impracticable schemes.—adj. Vis′ioned (rare) inspired so as to see visions: seen in a vision spectral.—n. Vis′ionist a visionary person one who believes in visions.—adj. Vis′ionless destitute of vision.—Beatific vision (see Beatify); Centre Point of vision the position from which anything is observed or represented as being seen.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you have a strange vision, denotes that you will be unfortunate in your dealings and sickness will unfit you for pleasant duties. If persons appear to you in visions, it foretells uprising and strife of families or state. If your friend is near dissolution and you are warned in a vision, he will appear suddenly before you, usually in white garments. Visions of death and trouble have such close resemblance, that they are sometimes mistaken one for the other. To see visions of any order in your dreams, you may look for unusual developments in your business, and a different atmosphere and surroundings in private life. Things will be reversed for a while with you. You will have changes in your business and private life seemingly bad, but eventually good for all concerned. The Supreme Will is always directed toward the ultimate good of the race.
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Examples
- She was little changed; something sterner, something more robust--but she was my godmother: still the distinct vision of Mrs. Bretton. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And by reason of the employment of such vision in the past, Edison is now able to see quite clearly through the forest of difficulties after eliminating them one by one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Slowly, at last, he moved his eyes from my face, as if he were waking from a vision, and cast them round the room. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He cleared his vision with his sleeve, and the melting mood over, a very stern one followed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No ingenuity could make such a picture beautiful--to one's actual vision. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- How much of the future might arise before _her_ vision? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Most glorious vision of divine loveliness, it is, replied the officer who stood at my side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Does the vision Moore has tracked occupy that chair? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was a day of visions without vision. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That vision, faint and tenuous as it was, had kept him from thinking of other women. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Standing as a spokesman of an actual social revolt, he has not lost his vision because he understands its function. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was a fairy vision no longer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The vision of another world is ascribed to Er, the son of Armenius, who is said by Clement of Alexandria to have been Zoroaster. Plato. The Republic.
- The sound of a drawer cautiously slid out struck my ear; stepping a little to one side, my vision took a free range, unimpeded by falling curtains. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She brought upon me a strange vision of Villette at midnight. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They gain an imaginary distinctness when embodied in a State or in a system of philosophy, but they still remain the visions of 'a world unrealized. Plato. The Republic.
- Pure reason is so gentlemanly, but will and the visions of a people--these are adventurous and incalculable forces. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was a day of visions without vision. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Meanwhile the great world outside went on to wider visions and new powers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The successful politician--good or bad--deals with the dynamics--with the will, the hopes, the needs and the visions of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Sometimes brighter visions rise before me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He is a very Ezekiel or Daniel for visions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I wish I could run off too, said Jo, forgetting her part of mentor in lively visions of martial life at the capital. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was impossible to help fleeting visions of another kind--new dignities and an acknowledged value of which she had often felt the absence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The nervous terrors and fearful visions which had scared us during the spring, continued to visit our coward troop during this sad journey. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Her visions of a brilliant marriage for Lily had faded after the first year. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She's bad enough as it is, with her dreams and her methodee fancies, and her visions of cities with goulden gates and precious stones. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He talks of seeing visions, sir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Charming Alnaschar visions! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Ay, and see visions too! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Typist: Tito