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Visual vs Visceral - What's the difference?

visual | visceral |

As adjectives the difference between visual and visceral

is that visual is related to or affecting the vision while visceral is visceral.

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.
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  • (obsolete) That can be seen; visible.
  • Derived terms

    * visual poem * visualization * visualize * visually

    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.
  • 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

    See also

    * gut feeling * gut reaction

    Anagrams

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