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Visceral vs Profound - What's the difference?

visceral | profound |

As adjectives the difference between visceral and profound

is that visceral is visceral while profound is descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.

As a noun profound is

(obsolete) the deep; the sea; the ocean.

As a verb profound is

(obsolete) to cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.

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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    profound

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
  • * (rfdate),
    • A gulf profound
  • Very deep; very serious
  • Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.
  • *
  • Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.
  • * (rfdate),
    • Profound sciatica
  • * (rfdate),
    • Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt.
  • Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
  • * (rfdate)
    • What humble gestures! What profound reverence!

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
    • God in the fathomless profound / Hath all this choice commanders drowned. Sandys .
  • (obsolete) An abyss.
    • (Milton)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • (obsolete) To dive deeply; to penetrate.

    • Related terms

    * profundity * profoundness ----