vision Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a vivid mental image
    • he had a vision of his own death
  2. noun the ability to see; the visual faculty
    visual modality; visual sense; sight.
  3. noun the perceptual experience of seeing
    visual sensation.
    • the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision
    • he had a visual sensation of intense light
  4. noun the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
    imaginativeness; imagination.
    • popular imagination created a world of demons
    • imagination reveals what the world could be
  5. noun a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance
    • he had a vision of the Virgin Mary

WordNet

Vi"sion noun
Etymology
OE. visioun, F. vision, fr. L. visio, from videre, visum, to see: akin to Gr. to see, I know, and E. wit. See Wit, v., and cf. Advice, Clairvoyant, Envy, Evident, Provide, Revise, Survey, View, Visage, Visit.
Definitions
  1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
    Faith here is turned into vision there. Hammond.
  2. (Physiol.) 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.
  3. That which is seen; an object of sight. Shak.
  4. 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.
    The baseless fabric of this vision. Shak.
    No dreams, but visions strange. Sir P. Sidney.
  5. Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy. Locke.
Vi"sion transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Visioned ; present participle & verbal noun Visioning
Definitions
  1. To see in a vision; to dream.
    For them no visioned terrors daunt, Their nights no fancied specters haunt. Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1913