Synonyms of visions

visions 1 of 2

noun

plural of vision

1

as in dreams

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 & Similar Words

• dreams
• fantasies
• illusions
• daydreams
• ideas
• delusions
• hallucinations
• nightmares
• unrealities
• phantasms
• chimeras
• mirages
• pipe dreams
• conceits
• figments
• castles in the air
• fancies
• castles in Spain
• nonentities
• fictions
• concoctions
• inventions
• utopias
• visualizations
• fabrications
• brainchildren
• will-o'-the-wisps
• fables
• ignes fatui
• cloudlands
• cloud-cuckoo-lands
• daymares
• Shangri-las

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facts
• realities
• actualities

2

as in apparitions

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

believed he'd seen a vision of his mother

Synonyms & Similar Words

• apparitions
• spirits
• ghosts
• shadows
• phantoms
• materializations
• specters
• phantasms
• haunts
• wraiths
• demons
• shades
• vampires
• poltergeists
• angels
• familiar spirits
• spooks
• sprites
• zombies
• visitants
• bogeys
• hants
• genies
• daimones
• ghouls
• jinn
• familiars
• doubles
• manes
• doppelgängers
• fetches
• incubi
• geniuses
• devils
• succubi
• imps
• shaitans
• lemures
• lamiae
• fiends
• cacodemons

visions

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of vision

as in imagines

to form a mental picture of

visioned her idea of the perfect meal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imagines
• dreams
• envisions
• sees
• pictures
• fantasies
• images
• features
• fancies
• conceives
• visualizes
• fantasizes
• envisages
• plans
• conceits
• conjures (up)
• daydreams
• contemplates
• ideates
• hallucinates
• reflects
• muses
• projects
• reminisces
• relives
• foresees
• ponders
• ruminates
• manufactures
• stargazes
• invents
• meditates
• concocts
• prefigures
• makes up
• fabricates
• re-creates

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of visions

Noun

Some opening day effects are long gone, such as the illusion created by actual shifting doors at the start of the attraction, or visions of tumbling rubble near its beginning. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Polls now show the two running neck-and-neck in a race marked by sharply different visions for Brazil’s economy, security and place in the world. — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026

The series follows a group of misbehaving Catholic school girls who experience prophetic visions after a dance-team initiation goes wrong, triggering mass hysteria throughout their town. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026

Blurred visions distort Jengira’s sense of time and space, drawing her across various time periods. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026

The candidates offer sharply different visions for the rainforest. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

How these dueling visions of research in America play out will in some ways be shaped by the outcomes of the next few elections. — Megan Molteni, STAT, 14 Oct. 2026

After coming into contact with the squid, Wade begins to have visions of the hag, a black-haired, sopping-wet woman in white who comes to him repeatedly. — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

The two candidates running for the job have vastly different visions for how that system will work. — Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 6 Oct. 2026