Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

visualism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vi-su-al-ism
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The privileging of vision over other means of sensory perception.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Yet, others have dismissed Fabian's visualism as a naïve critique rooted in the very processes he tries to undermine. For his critics, Fabian's analysis does not so much successfully critique the dominance of vision as grant other senses the dominating power he seeks to take away from vision […]"
"[…] Don Ihde's book analyzes the role of visualism in science, that is the trend to present diverse aspects of the world in a visual form. Don Ihde maintains that visualism was a cultural choice, historically reinforcing itself […]"

Etymology

From visual + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: visual

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does visualism mean?: The privileging of vision over other means of sensory perception.
Where does visualism come from?: From visual + -ism.

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