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- pronunciation:
- vI
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 n
- 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 |
adjective + (n.)vision
acute,
aesthetic,
alternative,
ambitious,
apocalyptic,
artistic,
averted,
beatific,
biblical,
binocular,
blind,
blurred,
blurry,
bold,
clear,
coherent,
collective,
comic,
compelling,
competing,
comprehensive,
congenital,
dental,
double,
functional,
grand,
guiding,
hazy,
idealistic,
idealized,
impaired,
inclusive,
inner,
institutional,
long-range,
long-term,
low,
monocular,
moral,
mystical,
optimistic,
peripheral,
poetic,
progressive,
prophetic,
residual,
romantic,
shared,
singular,
strategic,
sudden,
theological,
unified,
utopian,
vivid,
x-ray
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verb + (n.)vision
articulate,
blur,
cloud,
communicate,
conjure,
correct,
distort,
embody,
embrace,
evoke,
fulfil,
fulfill,
haunt,
impair,
implement,
inspire,
lack,
obscure,
outline,
shape,
share,
sketch
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(n.)vision
+ verb
clear, encompass, fade, narrow, root, sight, transform
noun + (n.)vision
adaptation, angle, blindness, breadth, clarity, dizziness, dream, field, founder, headache, laser, lens, periphery, persistence, tunnel, x-ray
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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.) |
The word vision
contains the following part:
vid, vis, -vise
Latin
root
that means see
  Example words:
envision, evidence, evident, invisible, provide, provision, revise, television, video, visible, vision, visionary, visor, visual
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