| vision | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. vision | a vivid mental image.; "he had a vision of his own death" |
| ~ imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination | the ability to form mental images of things or events.; "he could still hear her in his imagination" |
| ~ prevision | a prophetic vision (as in a dream). |
| ~ retrovision | a vision of events in the distant past. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense | the ability to see; the visual faculty. |
| ~ visual system | the sensory system for vision. |
| ~ sense modality, sensory system, modality | a particular sense. |
| ~ exteroception | sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body. |
| ~ stigmatism | normal eyesight. |
| ~ achromatic vision | vision using the rods. |
| ~ acuity, sharp-sightedness, visual acuity | sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart). |
| ~ binocular vision | vision involving the use of both eyes. |
| ~ central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea; the middle part of the visual field. |
| ~ chromatic vision, color vision, trichromacy | the normal ability to see colors. |
| ~ distance vision | vision for objects that a 20 feet or more from the viewer. |
| ~ eyesight, sightedness, seeing | normal use of the faculty of vision. |
| ~ monocular vision | vision with only one eye. |
| ~ near vision | vision for objects 2 feet or closer to the viewer. |
| ~ night-sight, night vision, scotopic vision, twilight vision | the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight). |
| ~ daylight vision, photopic vision | normal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived. |
| ~ peripheral vision | vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. vision, visual sensation | the perceptual experience of seeing.; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" |
| ~ aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression | an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation.; "a sensation of touch" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. imagination, imaginativeness, vision | 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" |
| ~ creative thinking, creativeness, creativity | the ability to create. |
| ~ fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place | a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings. |
| ~ fancy | a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination. |
| ~ fantasy, phantasy | imagination unrestricted by reality.; "a schoolgirl fantasy" |
| ~ dreaming, dream | imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake.; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" |
| ~ imaginary being, imaginary creature | a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction. |
| n. (event) | 5. vision | a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary" |
| ~ experience | an event as apprehended.; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention" |
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