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Vision vs Ideology - What's the difference?

vision | ideology |

As nouns the difference between vision and ideology

is that vision is ghost while ideology is doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.

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

    Anagrams

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    ideology

    Noun

    (ideologies)
  • Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
  • * '>citation
  • The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
  • Usage notes

    Original meaning “study of ideas” (following the etymology), today primarily used to mean “doctrine”. For example “communist ideology” generally refers to “communist doctrine”; study of communist ideas instead being “communist philosophy”, or more clearly “philosophy of communism”; only rarely “ideology of communism”.