| 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" |
| overlook | | |
| n. (location) | 1. overlook | a high place affording a good view. |
| ~ place, spot, topographic point | a point located with respect to surface features of some region.; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet" |
| v. (perception) | 2. overlook | look past, fail to notice. |
| ~ miss, lose | fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said" |
| v. (stative) | 3. look across, look out on, look out over, overlook | be oriented in a certain direction.; "The house looks out on a tennis court"; "The apartment overlooks the Hudson" |
| ~ lie | be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position. |
| v. (cognition) | 4. drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit | leave undone or leave out.; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
| ~ forget | forget to do something.; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" |
| ~ pass over, skip, skip over, jump | bypass.; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" |
| v. (stative) | 5. command, dominate, overlook, overtop | look down on.; "The villa dominates the town" |
| ~ lie | be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position. |
| ~ dwarf, overshadow, shadow | make appear small by comparison.; "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year" |
| v. (perception) | 6. overlook | watch over.; "I am overlooking her work" |
| ~ survey | look over carefully or inspect.; "He surveyed his new classmates" |
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