Vision vs Representation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between vision and representation

is that vision is the sense or ability of sight while representation is that which represents another.

As a verb vision

is to imagine something as if it were to be true.

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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representation

English

(wikipedia representation)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)

That which represents another.

(legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.

(politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.

(mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.

A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.

A theatrical performance.

Quotations

* 1637 , , final sentence *: Live, ?weet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your mo?t honoured parents, and as in this repræ?entation your attendant Thyr?is , ?o now in all reall expre??ion
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.^d

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