English > vision: 5 senses > noun 2, cognitionMeaning | The ability to see; the visual faculty. |
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Synonyms | sight, visual sense, visual modality |
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Category of | visual system | The sensory system for vision |
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Narrower | achromatic vision | vision using the rods |
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acuity, visual acuity, sharp-sightedness | Sharpness of vision |
binocular vision | vision involving the use of both eyes |
central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea |
color vision, chromatic vision, trichromacy | The normal ability to see colors |
daylight vision, photopic vision | normal vision in daylight |
distance vision | vision for objects that a 20 feet or more from the viewer |
eyesight, seeing, sightedness | normal use of the faculty of vision |
monocular vision | vision with only one eye |
near vision | vision for objects 2 feet or closer to the viewer |
night vision, night-sight, scotopic vision, twilight vision | The ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight) |
peripheral vision | vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina |
stigmatism | normal eyesight |
Broader | exteroception | sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body |
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modality, sense modality, sensory system | A particular sense |
Spanish | visión, vista |
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Catalan | visió, vista |
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