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What is the difference between visibility and vision?

visibility | vision | Derived terms |

Vision is a derived term of visibility.



In uncountable terms the difference between visibility and vision

is that visibility is the condition of being visible while vision is the sense or ability of sight.

In countable terms the difference between visibility and vision

is that visibility is the degree to which things may be seen while vision is a person or thing of extraordinary beauty.

As a verb vision is

to imagine something as if it were to be true.

visibility

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being visible.
  • (countable) The degree to which things may be seen.
  • The visibility from that angle was good.

    Synonyms

    * apparency

    Antonyms

    * hiddenness * invisibility * latency

    vision

    English

    (wikipedia vision)

    Noun

  • (label) The sense or ability of sight.
  • Something seen; an object perceived visually.
  • * 1610 , , I. ii. 270:
  • For to a vision so apparent rumour / Cannot be mute
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
  • , chapter=7, title= 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!}}
  • (label) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
  • (label) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
  • (John Locke)
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (ability) sight, eyesight, view, perception * (something imaginary) apparition, hallucination, mirage * (ideal or goal) dream, desire, aspiration, fantasy

    Derived terms

    * binocular vision * double vision * personal vision * prevision * visible * visibility * vision statement * visionary * visioner * visual

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To imagine something as if it were to be true.
  • To provide with a vision.
  • Synonyms

    * (imagine) envision

    Derived terms

    * envision * prevision

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