English > vision: 5 senses > noun 2, cognition| Meaning | 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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