Synonyms: vision, imagination, imaginativeness
Definition: the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
Usage: popular imagination created a world of demons; imagination reveals what the world could be
Similar words: creative thinking, creativeness, creativity
Definition: the ability to create
Synonyms: sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense
Definition: the ability to see; the visual faculty
Similar words: sense modality, sensory system, modality
Definition: a particular sense
Similar words: exteroception
Definition: sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
Synonyms: vision, visual sensation
Definition: the perceptual experience of seeing
Usage: the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision; he had a visual sensation of intense light
Similar words: esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression, aesthesis
Definition: an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
Usage: a sensation of touch
Synonyms: vision
Definition: a vivid mental image
Usage: he had a vision of his own death
Similar words: mental imagery, imagery, imagination, imaging
Definition: the ability to form mental images of things or events
Usage: he could still hear her in his imagination
Synonyms: vision
Definition: a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance
Usage: he had a vision of the Virgin Mary
Similar words: experience
Definition: an event as apprehended
Usage: a surprising experience; that painful experience certainly got our attention