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Deaf vs Visucentric - What's the difference?

deaf | visucentric |

As adjectives the difference between deaf and visucentric

is that deaf is of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages while visucentric is of or pertaining to products, space, buildings or environments designed in a manner that is visually optimal for deaf and hard-of-hearing people; pertaining to designs that focus on visual access.

deaf

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf .
  • * Dryden
    • Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
  • Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
    • Those people are deaf to reason.
  • * Shakespeare
    • O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf , but not to flattery!
  • Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
  • * Dryden
    • A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
    • a deaf''' nut; '''deaf corn
    (Halliwell)
  • * Holland
    • If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf , void, light, and naught.

    Synonyms

    * hard of hearing * hearing-impaired

    Derived terms

    * turn a deaf ear * stone deaf * fall on deaf ears

    See also

    * inaudible (unable to be heard ) * anosmic * blind

    Noun

  • Deaf people considered as a group.

    • Derived terms

    * deaf aid * deaf and dumb * deaf-mute * deafen * deafness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To deafen.
    • (Dryden)

    See also

    * (pedia) * (Deaf culture)

    Anagrams

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    visucentric

    English

    Alternative forms

    *visu-centric

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to products, space, buildings or environments designed in a manner that is visually optimal for deaf and hard-of-hearing people; pertaining to designs that focus on visual access.
    • In a visucentric world, spatial awareness comes from cues that are subtle and may go unnoticed to the hearing. (Deaf Diverse Design Guide web site)
  • Of or pertaining to art, literature, or other creative endeavors that has its main focus on what the eyes perceive.
    • Much of the poetry included in John Lee Clark's ''Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology'' is visucentric.

    See also

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    External links

    * http://www.adaptiveenvironments.org/index.php?articleid=600&option=News * http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-9451106/Eyeing-the-future-Gallaudet-University.html * http://www.edcmag.com/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000462334 * http://wapedia.mobi/en/Jane_Fernandes