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- pronunciation:
- vI
zhn
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer, Word Parts
part of speech: |
noun |
definition 1: |
the ability to perceive through sight.
Sometimes wearing glasses can improve your vision.Cats have better vision in the dark than humans.- synonyms:
- eyesight, sight
- similar words:
- perception
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definition 2: |
the power to anticipate or foresee future events or developments.
It took great vision to take on a project like building the Erie Canal.He was competent as a governor, but he lacked vision.- synonyms:
- foreknowledge, foresight, prescience
- similar words:
- discernment, imagination, insight, perception, perspicacity, understanding, wisdom
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definition 3: |
a particular way of seeing or conceiving of something that may come to pass or come into being.
His new book presents a grim vision of the future.Her vision of the proposed city park differed greatly from that of the other council members. |
definition 4: |
an intense image in one's imagination, or an image of a person or thing that appears to be real and truly present to the person perceiving it.
When he thought about going into battle, he had a vision of his own destruction.She had a vision of her late father standing at the foot of her bed.
- similar words:
- chimera, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy, figment, hallucination, illusion, image, mirage, phantom
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definition 5: |
an object or person of great beauty.
She was a vision in her wedding gown.- similar words:
- apparition, dream, image, sight
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related words: |
feast, view, vista |
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part of speech: |
transitive verb |
inflections: |
visions, visioning, visioned |
definition: |
to picture; envision.
She visioned a world in which all human beings would experience equality.- similar words:
- envision, imagine, picture
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derivation: |
visionless (adj.) |
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