visionary

Definition

A person with strong, original ideas about how the future might be improved or transformed; someone who combines foresight and imagination to envision possibilities others miss and often inspires others to pursue those visions.

Example Usage

Steve Jobs was a visionary who imagined personal computing before most people understood what it could become.

Origin

From Latin 'visio' (sight, vision); combined with the suffix '-ary' to denote someone characterized by visionary capacity.

Fun Fact

The accuracy of a visionary's predictions is unpredictable—some visions revolutionize industries while others become cautionary tales of misjudgment.

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