vision
pronunciation
How to pronounce vision in British English:
UK [ˈvɪʒn]
How to pronounce vision in American English:
US [ˈvɪʒn]
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- Noun:
- a vivid mental image
- the ability to see; the faculty of vision
- the perceptual experience of seeing
- the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
- a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance
Word Origin
- vision (n.)
- c. 1300, "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural," from Anglo-French visioun, Old French vision "presence, sight; view, look, appearance; dream, supernatural sight" (12c.), from Latin visionem (nominative visio) "act of seeing, sight, thing seen," noun of action from past participle stem of videre "to see." This is from the productive PIE root *weid- "to know, to see" (cognates: Sanskrit veda "I know;" Avestan vaeda "I know;" Greek oida, Doric woida "I know," idein "to see;" Old Irish fis "vision," find "white," i.e. "clearly seen," fiuss "knowledge;" Welsh gwyn, Gaulish vindos, Breton gwenn "white;" Gothic, Old Swedish, Old English witan "to know;" Gothic weitan "to see;" English wise, German wissen "to know;" Lithuanian vysti "to see;" Bulgarian vidya "I see;" Polish widzieć "to see," wiedzieć "to know;" Russian videt' "to see," vest' "news," Old Russian vedat' "to know"). The meaning "sense of sight" is first recorded late 15c. Meaning "statesman-like foresight, political sagacity" is attested from 1926.
Synonym
Example
- 1. The wired glasses support 65 different 3d vision computers .
- 2. And the vision thing belongs entirely to mr job .
- 3. And the neural real estate devoted to vision increases .
- 4. The last of her senses to develop fully was her vision .
- 5. Evaluate your choices based on your vision .