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visceral | inside |

As adjectives the difference between visceral and inside

is that visceral is of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic while inside is originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation.

As a noun inside is

the interior or inner or lesser part.

As a preposition inside is

within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.

As an adverb inside is

within or towards the interior of something, especially a building.

visceral

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (anatomy) Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.
  • * 1875 , , Insectivorous Plants , ch. 6:
    • Some areolar tissue free from elastic tissue was next procured from the visceral cavity of a toad.
  • * 1914 , , The Dream Doctor , ch. 22 The X-Ray "Movies":
    • "I can focus the X-rays first on the screen by means of a special quartz objective which I have devised. Then I take the pictures. Here, you see, are the lungs in slow or rapid respiration. There is the rhythmically beating heart, distinctly pulsating in perfect outline. There is the liver, moving up and down with the diaphragm, the intestines, and the stomach. You can see the bones moving with the limbs, as well as the inner visceral life."
  • Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.
  • * 1630 , , "Death's Duel":
    • Our meditation of his death should be more visceral , and affect us more, because it is of a thing already done.
  • * 1915 , , The Research Magnificent , Prelude – On Fear and Aristocracy:
    • [T]he discretion of an aristocrat is in his head, a tactical detail, it has nothing to do with this visceral sinking, this ebb in the nerves.
  • * 1964 July 3, " Books: Understanding Media'' by Marshall McLuhan," ''Time :
    • Television and other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral , and involve the individual almost without volition.
  • * 2011 Feb. 17, Ann Hulbert, " Book Review: Joyce Carol Oates’s Widow’s Lament''," ''New York Times (retrieved 10 Aug. 2011):
    • At its visceral core, grief is a stress response.
  • (figurative, obsolete) Having deep sensibility.
  • * Bishop Reynolds
    • Love is of all other the inmost and most visceral affection; and therefore called, by the apostle, 'bowels of love.'

    Synonyms

    * splanchnic

    Antonyms

    * cerebral

    Derived terms

    * visceral pleura

    Related terms

    * eviscerate * viscera

    See also

    * gut feeling * gut reaction

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    inside

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The interior or inner or lesser part.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • Looked he o' the inside of the paper?
  • * , chapter=4
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
  • (colloquial) (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
  • (dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
  • * The Anti-Jacobin
    • So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides / The Derby dilly, carrying three insides .
  • * (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)
    • So, what between Mr. Dowler's stories, and Mrs. Dowler's charms, and Mr. Pickwick's good humour, and Mr. Winkle's good listening, the insides contrived to be very companionable all the way.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
    • He placed the letter inside the envelope.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Within or towards the interior of something, especially a building.
    • It started raining, so I went inside .
  • (colloquial) In prison.
    • He's inside , doing a stretch for burglary.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation.
    • The reporter had received inside information about the forthcoming takeover.
    The robbery was planned by the security guard: it was an inside job.
    They wanted to know the inside story behind the celebrity's fall from grace.
  • (baseball) A pitch that is toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
    • The first pitch is ... just a bit inside .
  • Nearer to the interior of a running track, horse racing course etc.
    • Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.

    Synonyms

    * indoors

    Antonyms

    * outside

    Derived terms

    * inside job

    Related terms

    * insider

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