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| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perceive with eyes |
| Synonyms: | eyesight, faculty, perceiving, perception, seeing, sight, view, eyes, optics, range of view |
| Antonyms: | blindness, sightlessness |
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental image, concept |
| Synonyms: | angle, aspect, astuteness, conception, daydream, discernment, divination, dream, facet, fancy, fantasy, farsightedness, foreknowledge, foresight, head trip, idea, ideal, imagination, insight, intuition, keenness, muse, nightmare, outlook, penetration, perspective, phantasm, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, point of view, prescience, retrospect, slant, standpoint, trip, understanding, view, breadth of view, castles in the air, ideality, mental picture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apparition |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, chimera, delusion, ecstasy, fantasy, ghost, hallucination, haunt, illusion, mirage, nightmare, oracle, phantasm, phantom, phenomenon, presence, prophecy, revelation, specter, spirit, spook, trance, warlock, wraith |
| Antonyms: | actuality, fact, reality |
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very beautiful thing or person |
| Synonyms: | angel*, dream, eyeful*, picture, sight, spectacle, dazzler, feast for the eyes, perfect picture, sight for sore eyes, stunner |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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-nouns
vision, sight, optics, eyesight., view, look, espial, glance, ken, coup d'oeil; glimpse, glint, peep; gaze, stare, leer; perlustration, contemplation; conspection, conspectuity; regard, survey;introspection; reconnaissance, speculation, watch, espionage, espionnage, autopsy; ocular inspection, ocular demonstration; sight-seeing., point of view; gazebo, loophole, belvedere, watchtower., field of view; theater, amphitheater, arena, vista, horizon; commanding view, bird's eye view; periscope., visual organ, organ of vision; eye; naked eye, unassisted eye; retina, pupil, iris, cornea, white; optics, orbs; saucer eyes, goggle eyes, gooseberry eyes., short sight [more]; clear sight, sharp sight, quick sight, eagle sight, piercing sight, penetrating sight, clear glance, sharp glance, quick glance, eagle glance, piercing glance, penetrating glance, clear eye, sharp eye, quick eye, eagle eye, piercing eye, penetrating eye; perspicacity, discernment; catopsis., eagle, hawk; cat, lynx; Argus., evil eye; basilisk, cockatrice [Mythical].
-verbs
see, behold, discern, perceive, have in sight, descry, sight, make out, discover, distinguish, recognize, spy, espy, ken; get a sight of, have a sight of, catch a sight of, get a glimpse of, have a glimpse of, catch a glimpse of; command a view of; witness, contemplate, speculate; cast the eyes on, set the eyes on; be a spectator [more] of; look on (be present) [more]; see sights (curiosity) [more]; see at a glance (intelligence) [more]., look, view, eye; lift up the eyes, open one's eye; look at, look on, look upon, look over, look about one, look round; survey, scan, inspect; run the eye over, run the eye through; reconnoiter, glance round, glance on, glance over turn one's looks upon, bend one's looks upon; direct the eyes to, turn the eyes on, cast a glance., observe (attend to) [more]; watch (care) [more]; see with one's own eyes; watch for (expect) [more]; peep, peer, pry, take a peep; play at bopeep., look full in the face, look hard at, look intently; strain one's eyes; fix the eyes upon, rivet the eyes upon; stare, gaze; pore over, gloat on; leer, ogle, glare; goggle; cock the eye, squint, gloat, look askance.
-adjectives
seeing; visual, ocular; optic, optical; ophthalmic., clear-eyedsighted; eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed, keen-eyed, Argus-eyed., visible [more].
-adverbs
visibly [more]; in sight of, with one's eyes open at sight, at first sight, at a glance, at the first blush; prima facie.
-phrases
the scales falling from one's eyes; "an eye like Mars to threaten or command" [Hamlet]; "her eyes are homes of silent prayer" [Tennyson]; "looking before and after" [Hamlet]; "thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes" [Milton].
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| Antonyms: | blindness |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, astuteness, awareness, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, perspicacity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, shrewdness, smarts*, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit, acuity, brains, brilliance, good taste, percipience, perspicuity, sharpness, smartness |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, stupidity, denseness, ineptness, obtuseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | creativity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artistry |
| Synonyms: | cleverness, genius, imagination, ingenuity, inspiration, originality, talent, vision, imaginativeness, inventiveness, resourcefulness |
| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy thought of when awake |
| Synonyms: | castle in the air*, conceiving, dream, fancy, fancying, figment of imagination, fond hope, fool's paradise, head trip, imagination, imagining, in a zone, mind trip, musing, phantasm, phantasy, pie in the sky*, pipe dream, reverie, stargazing, trip*, vision, wish, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconception, misbelief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deception, deceptiveness, dream, eidolon, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment*, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, ignis fatuus, illusion, lapse, mirage, misapprehension, mistake, optical illusion, oversight, phantasm, phantom, pipe dream*, self-deception, shade, speciousness, spuriousness, trickery, trip, vision |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, fact, reality, surety, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | envisage/envision |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | picture in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, behold, conceive, conceptualize, contemplate, externalize, fancy, feature, foresee, form mental picture of, grasp, have a picture of, image, imagine, look upon, materialize, objectify, predict, realize, regard, see, survey, think up, view, view in mind's eye, vision, visualize |
| Main Entry: | extrasensory perception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psychic power |
| Synonyms: | ESP, clairvoyance, intuition, precognition, presentiment, second sight, sixth sense, telepathy, vision, intuitionism, intuitivism, keen intuition, psychic powers |
| Main Entry: | eyeful |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spectacular-looking person |
| Synonyms: | beauty, knockout*, lovely, show, spectacle, vision, dazzler, looker, stunner |
| Antonyms: | eyesore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fantasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination, dream |
| Synonyms: | Atlantis, Utopia, air castle, apparition, appearance, bubble*, chimera, conceiving, creativity, daydream, delusion, envisioning, externalizing, fabrication, fairyland, fancy, fancying, fantasia, figment*, flight, flight of imagination, fool's paradise, hallucination, head trip, illusion, imaginativeness, imagining, invention, mind trip, mirage, nightmare, objectifying, originality, rainbow*, reverie, trip, vagary, vision |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ghost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit of the dead |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, demon, devil, haunt, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, vision, visitor, wraith, banshee, daemon, eidolon, ethereal being, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, vampire, zombie |
| Antonyms: | being, entity |
| Main Entry: | hallucination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dream, delusion |
| Synonyms: | aberration, apparition, fantasy, figment of the imagination*, head trip, illusion, mirage, phantasm, phantom, trip*, vision, wraith, phantasmagoria |
| Antonyms: | experience, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, notion, originality, realization, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, verve, vision, wit, creative thought, ideality, inventiveness, mental agility, perceptibility, resourcefulness, unreality, visualization, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intuitiveness, awareness |
| Synonyms: | acumen, click*, comprehension, discernment, divination, drift*, intuition, judgment, observation, penetration, perception, perspicacity, sagacity, sapience, shrewdness, understanding, vision, wisdom, perceptivity, sagaciousness, sageness, wavelength |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inspiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, stimulus |
| Synonyms: | animus, approach, awakening, brainstorm*, creativity, elevation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exaltation, fancy, flash*, genius, hunch*, illumination, impulse, incentive, influence, insight, motivation, motive, muse, notion, revelation, rumble, spark, spur, stimulation, thought, vision, whim, afflatus, arousal, brainchild, deep think, inflatus |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ken |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perception |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, attention, attitude, awareness, cognizance, comprehension, concept, consciousness, grasp, idea, impression, insight, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, picture, realizing, recognition, sense, sight, understanding, vision, apprehending |
| Main Entry: | nightmare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad dream or experience |
| Synonyms: | dream, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, horror, illusion, incubus, ordeal, phantasm, torment, trial, tribulation, vision, succubus |
| Antonyms: | daymare |
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