Vision Definition–noun | 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. Compare 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. | –verb (used with object) | 9. | to envision: She tried to vision herself in a past century. | |
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perceiving of two images of a single object.vision quest
supernatural experience in which an individual seeks to interact with a guardian spirit, usually an anthropomorphized animal, to obtain advice or protection. Vision quests were most typically found ...
vision
physiological process of distinguishing, usually by means of an organ such as the eye, the shapes and colours of objects. See eye; photoreception; sense.Adamnan, The Vision of
in the Gaelic literature of Ireland, one of the earliest and most outstanding medieval Irish visions. This graceful prose work dates from the 10th century and is preserved in the later The Book of ...
colour vision
ability to distinguish among various wavelengths of light waves and to perceive the differences as differences in hue. The normal human eye can discriminate among hundreds of such bands of ...
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In 2003 many challenges faced Canada's railways, which had served for 150 years as Canada's spine, bringing together the scattered British North American colonies that made up the transcontinental ...
dream allegory
allegorical tale presented in the narrative framework of a dream. Especially popular in the Middle Ages, the device made more acceptable the fantastic and sometimes bizarre world of personifications ...
human aging
Visual acuity (ability to discriminate fine detail) is relatively poor in young children and improves up to young adulthood. From about the middle 20s to the 50s there is a slight decline in visual ...
nervous system, human
Most investigations of the visual pathways in the brain have been carried out in the cat.Isaiah
The earliest recorded event in his life is his call to prophecy as now found in the sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah; this occurred about 742 BC. The vision (probably in the Jerusalem Temple) that ...
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