Visual vs. Vision

Visualadjective

Related to or affecting the vision.

Visionnoun

(uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.

Visualadjective

(obsolete) That can be seen; visible.

Visionnoun

(countable) Something seen; an object perceived visually.

Visualnoun

Any element of something that depends on sight.

Visionnoun

(countable) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.

‘He tried drinking from the pool of water, but realized it was only a vision.’;

Visualnoun

An image; a picture; a graphic.

Visionnoun

Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

Visualnoun

(in the plural) All the visual elements of a multi-media presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.

Visionnoun

(countable) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.

‘He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.’;

Visualnoun

(advertising) A preliminary sketch.

Visionnoun

(countable) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.

‘He had a vision of the Virgin Mary.’;

Visualadjective

Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve.

‘The air,Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.’;

Visionnoun

(countable) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.

Visualadjective

That can be seen; visible.

Visionnoun

(uncountable) Pre-recorded film or tape; footage.

Visualadjective

relating to or using sight;

‘ocular inspection’; ‘an optical illusion’; ‘visual powers’; ‘visual navigation’;

Visionverb

(transitive) To imagine something as if it were to be true.

Visualadjective

able to be seen;

‘be sure of it; give me the ocular proof’; ‘a visual presentation’; ‘a visual image’;

Visionverb

(transitive) To present as in a vision.

Visionverb

(transitive) To provide with a vision.

Visionnoun

The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

‘Faith here is turned into vision there.’;

Visionnoun

The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.

Visionnoun

That which is seen; an object of sight.

Visionnoun

Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.

‘The baseless fabric of this vision.’; ‘No dreams, but visions strange.’;

Visionnoun

Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

Visionverb

To see in a vision; to dream.

‘For them no visioned terrors daunt,Their nights no fancied specters haunt.’;

Visionnoun

a vivid mental image;

‘he had a vision of his own death’;

Visionnoun

the ability to see; the faculty of vision

Visionnoun

the perceptual experience of seeing;

‘the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision’; ‘he had a visual sensation of intense light’;

Visionnoun

the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses;

‘popular imagination created a world of demons’; ‘imagination reveals what the world could be’;

Visionnoun

a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance;

‘he had a vision of the Virgin Mary’;