Omen vs Vision - What's the difference?
omen | vision |
Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
* 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
prophetic significance
To be an omen of.
To divine or predict from omens.
(label) The sense or ability of sight.
Something seen; an object perceived visually.
* 1610 , , I. ii. 270:
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, chapter=7, title= (label) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
(label) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
(label) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
(label) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.
(label) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
As nouns the difference between omen and vision
is that omen is (adult male human) while vision is ghost.omen
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia omen)- the ghost's appearance was an ill omen
- a rise in imports might be an omen of recovery
- the egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen
- Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen . Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
- a sign of ill omen
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "omen": good, ill, bad, auspicious, evil, favorable, happy, lucky.Synonyms
* portent, sign, signal, token, forewarning, warning, danger sign, foreshadowing, prediction, forecast, prophecy, harbinger, augury, auspice, presage, straw in the wind, (hand)writing on the wall, indication, hint, foretoken; see alsoVerb
Synonyms
* prognosticate, betoken, forecast, foretell, portend, foreshadow, bode, augur, prefigure, predict, auspicate, presageSee also
* augury * foreboding * portend * portentExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----vision
English
(wikipedia vision)Noun
- For to a vision so apparent rumour / Cannot be mute
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!}}
- (John Locke)
