vision
noun
1 her vision was blurred by tears:
eyesight, sight, power of sight, faculty of sight, ability to see, power of seeing, powers of observation, observation, perception, visual perception;
eyes;
field of vision, view, perspective.
2 he gazes into the fire seeing visions of the ancestral pilgrims:
apparition, specter, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image;
Scottish, & Irish bodach;
West Indian duppy;
informal spook;
literary phantasm, shade, revenant, wight, visitant;
rare eidolon, manes.
3 they have visions of a more hopeful future:
dream, daydream, reverie, mental picture, conceptualization;
plans, hopes;
fantasy, fancy, flight of fancy, fanciful notion, pipe dream, delusion, figment of the imagination, prospect.
4 his conference speech was a little lacking in vision:
imagination, creativity, creative power, inventiveness, innovation, inspiration, intuition, perceptiveness, perception, breadth of view, foresight, insight, far-sightedness, prescience, discernment, awareness, penetration, shrewdness, sharpness, cleverness.
5 Melissa was a vision in pale lilac:
beautiful sight, vision of loveliness, feast for the eyes, pleasure to behold, delight, dream, beauty, spectacle, picture, joy, marvel, sensation;
informal sight for sore eyes, eyeful, stunner, cracker, smasher, knockout, looker, good-looker, bobby-dazzler, peach, honey.
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