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Visual vs Nonvisual - What's the difference?

visual | nonvisual |

As adjectives the difference between visual and nonvisual

is that visual is related to or affecting the vision while nonvisual is not visual.

As a noun visual

is any element of something that depends on sight.

visual

English

Alternative forms

* visuall (qualifier)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Related to or affecting the vision.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
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  • (obsolete) That can be seen; visible.

    • Derived terms

    * visual poem * visualization * visualize * visually

    Related terms

    * envisage * evidence * visage * visible * vision * visionary

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any element of something that depends on sight.
  • An image; a picture; a graphic.
  • (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multi-media presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
  • (advertising) A preliminary sketch.

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    nonvisual

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not visual.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2001, date=May 11, Andrew Lawler, VISUALIZING SCIENCE: New Imaging Tools Put the Art Back Into Science, Science citation
    • , passage=When I was a child, it was a very nonvisual universe, and people with a sense of the visual were not respected." }}
  • *{{quote-journal, 2001, date=June 8, John J. McDonald et al., Multisensory Integration and Crossmodal Attention Effects in the Human Brain, Science citation
    • , passage=Involuntary shifts of spatial attention caused by the appearance of nonvisual stimuli do seem to produce similar enhancements of neural responses to visual stimuli within visual cortex (19 , 20 ), but the details of how this occurs remain to be discovered. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2002, date=March 29, author=Michael Marsh, title=Chi Lives: the art of the Wobbly, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage="An artist, whether visual or nonvisual , expresses that which is closest to him or her," he says. }}