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Visual vs Visuality - What's the difference?

visual | visuality |

As nouns the difference between visual and visuality

is that visual is any element of something that depends on sight while visuality is the quality of being visual.

As an adjective visual

is related to or affecting the vision.

visual

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Alternative forms

* visuall (qualifier)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Related to or affecting the vision.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close
  • (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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    visuality

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being visual.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1840, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Heroes and Hero Worship, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Not the general whole only; every compartment of it is worked out, with intense earnestness, into truth, into clear visuality . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Frederic Stewart Isham, title=A Man and His Money, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The scope of his mental visuality no longer included the figure of the agent from the private detective bureau. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=November 23, author=Kevin Kelly, title=Becoming Screen Literate, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift — from book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality . }}