Deaf vs Visucentric - What's the difference?
deaf | visucentric |
Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
* Shakespeare
Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
* Dryden
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
* Holland
Deaf people considered as a group.
Of or pertaining to products, space, buildings or environments designed in a manner that is visually optimal for deaf and hard-of-hearing people; pertaining to designs that focus on visual access.
Of or pertaining to art, literature, or other creative endeavors that has its main focus on what the eyes perceive.
As adjectives the difference between deaf and visucentric
is that deaf is of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages while visucentric is of or pertaining to products, space, buildings or environments designed in a manner that is visually optimal for deaf and hard-of-hearing people; pertaining to designs that focus on visual access.deaf
English
Adjective
(er)- Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf .
- Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
- Those people are deaf to reason.
- O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf , but not to flattery!
- A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
- a deaf''' nut; '''deaf corn
- (Halliwell)
- If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf , void, light, and naught.
Synonyms
* hard of hearing * hearing-impairedDerived terms
* turn a deaf ear * stone deaf * fall on deaf earsSee also
* inaudible (unable to be heard ) * anosmic * blindNoun
Derived terms
* deaf aid * deaf and dumb * deaf-mute * deafen * deafnessSee also
* (pedia) * (Deaf culture)Anagrams
* * ----visucentric
English
Alternative forms
*visu-centricAdjective
(en adjective)- In a visucentric world, spatial awareness comes from cues that are subtle and may go unnoticed to the hearing. (Deaf Diverse Design Guide web site)
- Much of the poetry included in John Lee Clark's ''Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology'' is visucentric.