单词 | vision |
释义 | vision —visionless, adj. /vizh"euhn/, n. 1. the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight. 2. the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur. 3. an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency: a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision. Cf. hallucination (def. 1). 4. something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message. 5. a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory. 6. something seen; an object of sight. 7. a scene, person, etc., of extraordinary beauty: The sky was a vision of red and pink. 8. See computer vision. v.t. 9. to envision: She tried to vision herself in a past century. [1250-1300; ME < L vision- (s. of visio) a seeing, view, equiv. to vis(us), ptp. of videre to see + -ion- -ION] Syn. 2. perception, discernment. 4. apparition, phantasm, chimera. See dream. |
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