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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