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vision

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of vision

1 a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

  • a vision of the future that no other film director had ever created
Synonyms of vision

chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality
Words Related to vision

ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp

brainchild, idea

concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention

envisaging, imaging, visualization

cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia

daymare, nightmare
Phrases Synonymous with vision

castle in Spain, castle in the air
Near Antonyms of vision

actuality, fact, reality

2 the ability to see

  • the bright light temporarily robbed me of vision
Synonyms of vision

eye, eyesight, sight
Words Related to vision

myopia, nearsightedness

farsightedness, hypermetropia, hyperopia, presbyopia

aniseikonia, astigmatism, diplopia, squint, strabismus

double vision

3 the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people

  • believed he'd seen a vision of his mother
Synonyms of vision

apparition, bogey (also bogie), familiar spirit, ghost, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, visitant, wraith
Words Related to vision

angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn), shaitan

double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch

lemures, manes

incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi)

cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp

4 concern or preparation for the future

  • a company president with the long-range vision that his firm needs to survive in the global economy
Synonyms of vision

farsightedness, foresight, foresightedness, forethought, prescience, providence
Words Related to vision

precaution, premeditation

discernment, discretion, insight, perception, perceptiveness, prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sapience, wisdom
Near Antonyms of vision

hindsight
Antonyms of vision

improvidence, myopia, shortsightedness

vision

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of vision

to form a mental picture of

  • visioned her idea of the perfect meal
Synonyms of vision

conceit [chiefly dialect], conceive, conjure (up), dream, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, ideate, image, imagine, picture, see, visualize
Words Related to vision

daydream, stargaze

hallucinate

re-create, reflect, relive, reminisce

contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, ruminate

concoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, project

foresee, prefigure

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