Synonyms for vision
noun
The faculty of sight
sight, perception, perceiving, range of view, optics, eyesight.
Understanding
foresight, discernment, breadth of view, insight, penetration, intuition, divination, astuteness, keenness, foreknowledge, prescience, farsightedness; see also acumen.
Something seen through powers of the mind
imagination, poetic insight, fancy, fantasy, image, concept, conception, ideality, idea; see also thought 1, 2.
Something seen by other than normal sight
revelation, hallucination, trance, ecstasy, phantom, apparition, ghost, wraith, specter, apocalypse, nightmare, spirit, warlock; see also fantasy 2, illusion 1.
See vision in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
The faculty of seeing:
eye, eyesight, seeing, sight. (Archaic) light1. See seeUnusual or creative discernment or perception:
farsightedness, foresight, prescience. See foresightAn illusory mental image:
daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie. See realSomething that is foretold by or as if by supernatural means:
divination, oracle, prophecy, soothsaying, vaticination. See foresight
verb
To form mental images of:
conceive, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, image, imagine, picture, see, think, visualize. (Informal) feature. See thoughts
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