Visceral vs Sensual - What's the difference?
visceral | sensual |
(anatomy) Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.
* 1875 , , Insectivorous Plants , ch. 6:
* 1914 , , The Dream Doctor , ch. 22 The X-Ray "Movies":
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":
* 1915 , , The Research Magnificent , Prelude – On Fear and Aristocracy:
* 1964 July 3, "
* 2011 Feb. 17, Ann Hulbert, "
(figurative, obsolete) Having deep sensibility.
* Bishop Reynolds
Inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations.
(not comparable) Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.
As adjectives the difference between visceral and sensual
is that visceral is visceral while sensual is inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations.visceral
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Some areolar tissue free from elastic tissue was next procured from the visceral cavity of a toad.
- "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."
- Our meditation of his death should be more visceral , and affect us more, because it is of a thing already done.
- [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.
Books: Understanding Media'' by Marshall McLuhan," ''Time :
- Television and other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral , and involve the individual almost without volition.
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.
- Love is of all other the inmost and most visceral affection; and therefore called, by the apostle, 'bowels of love.'
Synonyms
* splanchnicAntonyms
* cerebralDerived terms
* visceral pleuraSee also
* gut feeling * gut reactionExternal links
* *Anagrams
* * ----sensual
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Alternative forms
* sensuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- That massage was a very sensual experience!
- Plato believed that this sensual world in which we live is inferior to the heavenly realm.
