— visionless , adj.
/vizh"euhn/ , n.
1. the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
2. the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur.
3. an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency: a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision. Cf. hallucination (def. 1).
4. something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message.
5. a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory.
6. something seen; an object of sight.
7. a scene, person, etc., of extraordinary beauty: The sky was a vision of red and pink.
8. See computer vision .
v.t.
9. to envision: She tried to vision herself in a past century.
[ 1250-1300; ME vision- (s. of visio ) a seeing, view, equiv. to vis ( us ), ptp. of videre to see + -ion- -ION ]
Syn. 2. perception, discernment. 4. apparition, phantasm, chimera. See dream .