Vision

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1. Verb

The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

2. Verb

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. Verb

That which is seen; an object of sight.

4. Verb

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.

5. Verb

Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

6. Verb

To see in a vision; to dream.

7. Noun

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"
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare

8. Noun

the ability to see; the visual faculty
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare

9. Noun

a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death"
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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