VISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vision mean? 

• VISION (noun)
  The noun VISION has 5 senses:

1. a vivid mental image

2. the ability to see; the visual faculty

3. the perceptual experience of seeing

4. the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

5. a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance

  Familiarity information: VISION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vivid mental image

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

he had a vision of his own death

Hypernyms ("vision" is a kind of...):

imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery (the ability to form mental images of things or events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vision"):

prevision (a prophetic vision (as in a dream))

retrovision (a vision of events in the distant past)

Derivation:

visionary (not practical or realizable; speculative)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ability to see; the visual faculty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

sight; vision; visual modality; visual sense

Hypernyms ("vision" is a kind of...):

modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)

exteroception (sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body)

Domain member category:

visual system (the sensory system for vision)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vision"):

chromatic vision; color vision; trichromacy (the normal ability to see colors)

peripheral vision (vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina)

daylight vision; photopic vision (normal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived)

night-sight; night vision; scotopic vision; twilight vision (the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight))

near vision (vision for objects 2 feet or closer to the viewer)

monocular vision (vision with only one eye)

eyesight; seeing; sightedness (normal use of the faculty of vision)

distance vision (vision for objects that a 20 feet or more from the viewer)

central vision (vision using the fovea and parafovea; the middle part of the visual field)

binocular vision (vision involving the use of both eyes)

acuity; sharp-sightedness; visual acuity (sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart))

achromatic vision (vision using the rods)

stigmatism (normal eyesight)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The perceptual experience of seeing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

vision; visual sensation

Context example:

he had a visual sensation of intense light

Hypernyms ("vision" is a kind of...):

aesthesis; esthesis; sensation; sense datum; sense experience; sense impression (an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

imagination; imaginativeness; vision

Context example:

imagination reveals what the world could be

Hypernyms ("vision" is a kind of...):

creative thinking; creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vision"):

fancy (imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination)

fantasy; phantasy (imagination unrestricted by reality)

dream; dreaming (imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake)

imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

he had a vision of the Virgin Mary

Hypernyms ("vision" is a kind of...):

experience (an event as apprehended)

 Context examples 

They had adequately expressed the pause his vision had put in the conversation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He did not look at things with wide vision.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Those persons infected have impaired vision and up to 20% are blind.

(Ocular Onchocerciasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Subdiscipline of pathology with a focus on vision and the eye.

(Ocular Pathology, NCI Thesaurus)

The dim room was full of visions.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Signs and symptoms include swelling and pain of the eyelids, pain in the eye, painful eye movements, decreased vision, and fever.

(Orbital Cellulitis, NCI Thesaurus)

I should have laughed only that I had a vision of our doing another Catharine-wheel down the passage.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It leads to progressive loss of vision.

(Choroideremia, NCI Thesaurus)

Sometimes brighter visions rise before me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And health problems such as high blood pressure and stroke, both linked with oxygen loss, can damage vision.

(Low ocean oxygen levels can blind sea creatures, National Science Foundation)