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Vision   /vˈɪʒən/   Listen
Vision

noun
1.
A vivid mental image.
2.
The ability to see; the visual faculty.  Synonyms: sight, visual modality, visual sense.
3.
The perceptual experience of seeing.  Synonym: visual sensation.  "He had a visual sensation of intense light"
4.
The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.  Synonyms: imagination, imaginativeness.  "Imagination reveals what the world could be"
5.
A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.



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"Vision" Quotes from Famous Books



... the scant nourishment that the crevices in the rocks afford them, fill the air with their fragrance. Generations of men come and go, and the face of Nature remains as it was when the boy poet first gazed in a rapt vision at the grey bastions of St Vincent's Rocks, and down at the river at his feet ...
— Bristol Bells - A Story of the Eighteenth Century • Emma Marshall
... far as man is concerned, I might say that Mr. Lincoln was the Moses of the freedmen; but whoever shall be the truest friend of human freedom, whoever shall write his name highest upon the horizon of public vision as the friend of human liberty, that man—and I hope it may be the present President of the United States—will be the Joshua to lead the people ...
— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes
... concessions for good motives and unsuspicious confidence; I resorted to many expedients to vindicate the disinterested benevolence of the Society; but I could not rest. The sun in its mid-day splendor was not more clear and palpable to my vision, than the anti-christian and anti-republican character of this association. It was evident to me that the great mass of its supporters at the north did not realise its dangerous tendency. They were told that it was designed to effect the ultimate emancipation of the ...
— Thoughts on African Colonization • William Lloyd Garrison
... dream in which I had had a vision of the prehistoric world, of the tertiary and post-tertiary periods, was now realised. And there we were alone, in the bowels of the earth, at the mercy of its ...
— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne
... spirit of Christ passed between olive trees. It was a vision, not a reality. And she herself partook of the visionary being. There was the voice in the night calling, "Samuel, Samuel!" And still the voice called in the night. But not this night, nor last night, but in the unfathomed night of Sunday, ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence


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