different between vagary vs vision

English

Etymology

From Latin vagus (“wandering”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, formerly) IPA^(key): /v?????i/
• (General American, now commonly) IPA^(key): /?ve????i/

Noun

vagary (plural vagaries)

1. An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies, ch. 8:

     It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
2. An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:whim

   • 1905, Jack London, War of the Classes, Preface:

     And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.

Derived terms

• vagarity
• vagarious

Related terms

• vague
• vagrant
• vagabond

Translations

See also

• vaguery

Anagrams

• Varyag

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 IX^e au XV^e 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

Declension