vision

1. A vivid mental image (synset 105776249)
   "he had a vision of his own death"
   is a type of: imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery - the ability to form mental images of things or events
   subtypes:

   • prevision - a prophetic vision (as in a dream)
   • retrovision - a vision of events in the distant past
2. The ability to see;
   The visual faculty (synset 105662207)
   associated with: visual system - the sensory system for vision
   is a type of:

   • modality, sense modality, sensory system - a particular sense
   • exteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
   subtypes:

   • stigmatism - normal eyesight
   • achromatic vision - vision using the rods
   • acuity, sharp-sightedness, visual acuity - sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)
   • binocular vision - vision involving the use of both eyes
   • central vision - vision using the fovea and parafovea; the middle part of the visual field
   • chromatic vision, color vision, trichromacy - the normal ability to see colors
   • distance vision - vision for objects that a 20 feet or more from the viewer
   • eyesight, seeing, sightedness - normal use of the faculty of vision
   • monocular vision - vision with only one eye
   • near vision - vision for objects 2 feet or closer to the viewer
   • night vision, night-sight, scotopic vision, twilight vision - the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight)
   • daylight vision, photopic vision - normal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived
   • peripheral vision - vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina
   same as: sight, visual modality, visual sense
3. The perceptual experience of seeing (synset 105721471)
   "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light"
   is a type of: aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression - an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
   same as: visual sensation
4. The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses (synset 105633248)
   "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"
   is a type of: creative thinking, creativeness, creativity - the ability to create
   subtypes:

   • fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
   • fancy - imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
   • fantasy, phantasy - imagination unrestricted by reality
   • dream, dreaming - imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
   • imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction
   same as: imagination, imaginativeness
5. A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance (synset 107303190)
   "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"
   is a type of: experience - an event as apprehended

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