vision

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The ability to see; sight.

   Glasses improved her vision greatly.

2. 2
   noun

   An idea or goal of how things should be in the future.

   He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.

3. 3
   noun

   A vivid image or scene formed in the mind.

   I had a sudden vision of my childhood home.

4. 4
   noun

   A religious or supernatural experience of seeing something not really there.

   She claimed to have had a vision of an angel.

From Middle English visioun, from Anglo-Norman visioun, from Old French vision, from Latin vīsiō (“vision, seeing”), noun of action from the perfect passive participle visus (“that which is seen”), from the verb videō (“to see”) + action noun suffix -iō.

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