vision

The ability to see with your eyes.

• My vision is poor.
• These glasses have improved her vision.
• He lost his vision in one eye.

Similar words: sight, eyesight

Opposites: blindness

Common phrases: poor vision, blurred vision, loss of vision, clear vision

The ability to imagine a better future and think of ways to achieve it.

• A good leader needs vision.
• His vision helped the company grow.
• We share a vision for a cleaner city.

How to use it: vision for something (She explained her vision for the city's future.)

Similar words: foresight

Opposites: shortsightedness

Common phrases: have vision, vision for something, lack of vision

Something you seem to see, although it is not really there.

• The vision soon vanished.
• She saw a strange vision in her dream.
• Was the figure real, or just a vision?

How to use it: vision of someone/something (He saw a vision of his childhood home.)

Similar words: apparition, hallucination

Common phrases: see a vision, vision of someone, strange vision