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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1290|origins=la videre}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈvɪʒ.ən/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|visioun]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) [[bor|xno|visioun]], Old French vision “sight, view; dream, supernatural sight”,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[la|vīsiō|t=act of seeing, sight, thing seen]] (accusative vīsiōnem),^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) a noun of action from vīsus, the past participle of [[m|la|vidēre|t=to see]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(AHD 2000) from [[ine-pro|*weyd-|alt=*weid-|t=to see]].^(Etymonline)^(AHD 2000) It is related to [[visit]], [[visual]], [[revise]] and [[provide]].^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Something seen otherwise than by ordinary sight, in a dream or trance, especially a supernatural apparition: about 1290 in the OED,^(OED 1989) about 1300 in Etymonline and Barnhart.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A narrative account of a vision is from the mid-14th century.^(Etymonline) The action of seeing something not actually present to the eye is from 1382.^(OED 1989) By the early 15th century it meant a visual perception,^(Etymonline) and the bodily sense of sight, the faculty of seeing, is from about 1491.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) A vivid mental concept is from 1592,^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) and a person or scene of unusual beauty from 1823.^(OED 1989) The ability to conceive what might be achieved, especially in politics, as in ''a statesman of great vision'', is from 1904,^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) and “statesmanlike foresight” from 1926.^(Etymonline) The verb, “to show as in a vision”, is from 1594.^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024) ''Visionary'' is from 1648.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1290 – a supernatural apparition.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1382 – seeing what is not present.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1491 – the sense of sight.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1592 – a mental concept.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1648 – ''visionary''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1823 – a person of great beauty.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1904 – foresight, imagination.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The faculty of [[sight]]; eyesight.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Unusual discernment or foresight: ''a leader of vision''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # A mental image produced by the imagination.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Something seen in a [[dream]], trance or ecstasy, especially a supernatural appearance.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # The way one sees or conceives of something.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To see in or as if in a vision; to [[envision]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[visional]]

+ * [[visionally]]

+ * [[visionless]]

+ * [[monovision]]

+ * [[radiovision]]

+ * [[revision]]

+ * [[stereovision]]

+ * [[television]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[visionary]]

+ * [[visit]]

+ * [[visual]]

+ * [[revise]]

+ * [[provide]]

+ * [[envision]]

+ * [[wit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}