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

Meanwhile, at a college job fair, Angie and Ormewood encounter a grad student claiming to have psychic visions. — Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 6 Sep. 2026

Ewa Mroczkowska’s production design also turns dewy embankments, decadent interiors, and sunrises over cemeteries into visions of storybook-like decay. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026

One day, a voice told her to draw these visions or die, more or less. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

In some ways, the rise of the AfD points to a clash of the different visions of German identity and nationalism in the former East and West. — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026

The music churns, the camera flies, flashes of the past and the future intrude alongside visions of events that may or may not be real. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026

While sections pertaining to the house itself are both gripping and eerie (rooms flood, tiles rearrange, visions flicker), the real terror comes from human history. — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have contrasting visions for the region and beyond, including Libya, Sudan, and Yemen. — Dina Esfandiary, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026

The 20th century in particular abounded in such visions, some of which—The Handmaid’s Tale, or Brave New World, published in 1932 and getting spookier every day—have proved more prophetic than others. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026