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figment

English

Etymology

From Late Latin figmentum (anything made, a fiction), from fing? (make, form, feign); see fiction, feign.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General American) IPA(key): /?f??.m?nt/
  • (US)
  • (General Australian)

Noun

figment (plural figments)

  1. A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
    • 1989 (Sep 30), R. McNeill Alexander, "Biomechanics in the days before Newton", New Scientist volume 123, No. 1684, page 59
      He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.

Usage notes

  • Often used in the form "a figment of one's imagination".

Related terms

  • feign
  • fiction
  • fictional
  • fictitious

Translations

References

  • figment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • figment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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vision

English

Etymology

From Middle English visioun, from Anglo-Norman visioun, from Old French vision, from Latin v?si? (vision, seeing), noun of action from the perfect passive participle visus (that which is seen), from the verb vide? (I see) + action noun suffix -i?.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: v?zh'?n, IPA(key): /?v?.?(?)n/
  • Rhymes: -???n

Noun

vision (countable and uncountable, plural visions)

  1. (uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
  2. (countable) Something seen; an object perceived visually.
    • , [Act I, scene ii]:
      [] For to a Vi?ion ?o apparant, Rumor / Cannot be mute []
  3. (countable) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
  4. (countable, by extension) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
  5. (countable) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
  6. (countable) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.
  7. (countable) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
  8. (uncountable) Pre-recorded film or tape; footage.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vision (third-person singular simple present visions, present participle visioning, simple past and past participle visioned)

  1. (transitive) To imagine something as if it were to be true.
  2. (transitive) To present as in a vision.
  3. (transitive) To provide with a vision. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

  • (imagine): envision

Derived terms

  • envision
  • prevision

Anagrams

  • Voisin, inviso

Finnish

Noun

vision

  1. Genitive singular form of visio.

Anagrams

  • voisin

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?si?, from vide? (whence voir).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi.zj??/
  • Rhymes: -??
  • Homophone: visions

Noun

vision f (plural visions)

  1. vision, sight

Synonyms

  • (ability to see): vue

Derived terms

  • champ de vision
  • télévision
  • visible
  • vision centrale
  • vision périphérique
  • visionnaire
  • visionner

Further reading

  • “vision” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • voisin

Middle English

Noun

vision

  1. Alternative form of visioun

Old French

Alternative forms

  • visioun, visiun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?si?.

Noun

vision f (oblique plural visions, nominative singular vision, nominative plural visions)

  1. vision (supernatural sensory experience)

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (vision, supplement)
  • visiun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

  • visiun

Etymology

From Latin v?si?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi?zju?/

Noun

vision f (plural vision)

  1. vision

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /v???u?n/

Noun

vision c

  1. vision; something imaginary
  2. vision; a (grand) goal or idea

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