vision (n.)

  1. a vivid mental image; he had a vision of his own death'

  2. the ability to see; the visual faculty

    [ Syn: sight , sight , visual sense , visual sense , visual modality , visual modality ]

  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'

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