Vision vs. Ambition

Vision vs. Ambition — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Vision and Ambition

Visionnoun

(uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.

Ambitionnoun

Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.

My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition.

Visionnoun

(countable) Something seen; an object perceived visually.

Ambitionnoun

(countable) An object of an ardent desire.

My ambition is to own a helicopter.

Visionnoun

(countable) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.

He tried drinking from the pool of water, but realized it was only a vision.

Ambitionnoun

A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.

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Visionnoun

Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

Ambitionnoun

(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.

Visionnoun

(countable) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.

He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.

Ambitionnoun

(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

Visionnoun

(countable) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.

He had a vision of the Virgin Mary.

Ambitionverb

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.
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Visionnoun

(countable) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.

Ambitionnoun

a cherished desire;

his ambition is to own his own business

Visionnoun

(uncountable) Pre-recorded film or tape; footage.

Ambitionnoun

a strong drive for success

Visionverb

(transitive) To imagine something as if it were to be true.

Ambitionverb

have as one's ambition

Visionverb

(transitive) To present as in a vision.

Visionverb

(transitive) To provide with a vision.

Visionnoun

a vivid mental image;

he had a vision of his own death

Visionnoun

the ability to see; the faculty of vision

Visionnoun

the perceptual experience of seeing;

the runners emerged from the trees into his clear visionhe had a visual sensation of intense light

Visionnoun

the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses;

popular imagination created a world of demonsimagination reveals what the world could be

Visionnoun

a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance;

he had a vision of the Virgin Mary