English noun: vision | |||
| 1. | vision (cognition) a vivid mental image | ||
| Samples | He had a vision of his own death. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | prevision, retrovision | ||
| 2. | vision (cognition) the ability to see; the visual faculty | ||
| Synonyms | sight, visual modality, visual sense | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | exteroception, modality, sense modality, sensory system | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | achromatic vision, acuity, binocular vision, central vision, chromatic vision, color vision, daylight vision, distance vision, eyesight, monocular vision, near vision, night vision, night-sight, peripheral vision, photopic vision, scotopic vision, seeing, sharp-sightedness, sightedness, stigmatism, trichromacy, twilight vision, visual acuity | ||
| Domain category members | visual system | ||
| 3. | vision (cognition) the perceptual experience of seeing | ||
| Samples | The runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision. He had a visual sensation of intense light. | ||
| Synonyms | visual sensation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression | ||
| 4. | vision (cognition) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | ||
| Samples | Popular imagination created a world of demons. Imagination reveals what the world could be. | ||
| Synonyms | imagination, imaginativeness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | creative thinking, creativeness, creativity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dream, dreaming, fancy, fantasy, fictitious place, imaginary being, imaginary creature, imaginary place, mythical place, phantasy | ||
| 5. | vision (event) a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance | ||
| Samples | He had a vision of the Virgin Mary. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | experience | ||