n. 1
The sense or ability of sight.
n. 2
Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
He tried drinking from the pool of water, but realized it was only a vision.
n. 3
An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.
v. 1
To imagine something as if it were to be true.

Related words

Word family: visibility visible visionary visionphone visiphone visiplate visiscreen visual
Phrases: field of vision binocular vision double vision night vision point of vision rear vision mirror tunnel vision vision board
Is a kind of: sense

Forms

Plural: visions → hallucinations, apparitions, spirits, imageries…
Past participle: visioned
e.g. visioned → envisioned, imaged…

Choose the right word

Vision, Dreams or Visions?

In the figurative sense, we speak of dreams of fortune, visions of glory, with little difference of meaning except that the vision is thought of as fuller and more vivid.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

illusion This created an illusion that was hard to explain.
imagery The poem relies heavily on imagery associated with night.
hallucination Pietro brushed that aside as a hallucination.
premonition I had a premonition that something wasn't right.
dream The time will come when your dream will come true.
aspiration That seems to me a rather pathetic aspiration.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
vision		rising
illusion		rising
imagery		rising
hallucination		rising
premonition		rising
dream		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: ken¹
4 letters: view¹
5 letters: dream¹, image², sight¹, ghost¹, fancy², vapor²
6 letters: seeing², spirit², desire³, bubble², mirage², wraith, vapour
7 letters: fantasy³, imagery³, phantom², spectre², specter², chimera³, reverie³
8 letters: illusion³, envision³, phantasm³
10 letters: appearance³, perception³, aspiration⁴, apparition⁴
11 letters: imagination⁵, premonition⁴
13 letters: hallucination⁵
15 letters: imaginativeness

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (image² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: vision
Italiano: visione
Español: visión
Deutsch: Vision
Català: visió