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televisual, a.|ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒjuːəl, -ˈvɪzjuːəl|
[f. televison, after visual a.]
Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or appearing on television; suitable for or effective in the medium of television.
1934in Webster. 1956Observer 15 Jan. 8/5 All day he lies in bed, while televisual phantoms flit across his ruffled cerebral screen. 1959Listener 12 Feb. 303/1 Here was something that the theatre could not do, something essentially televisual. 1960K. Amis New Maps of Hell iii. 82 Televisual views of actual historical scenes. 1973Church Times 16 Nov. 9 Filmic or televisual violence breeds or releases violence in the viewer. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 25 July 842/2 It is because he keeps in practice with televisual mannerisms that he is so successful a natural in a television-dominated world.
Hence teleˈvisually adv., from the point of view of or as regards television, on or for television.
1957Observer 29 Sept. 13/2 Televisually..there was a surprising amount to be said in favour of this experiment so rich in every kind of producer's death-trap. 1967Listener 9 Feb. 207/2 We had on this uncomfortable occasion not Shakespeare re-worked televisually..but a kind of compromise with what had already been worked in an alien medium. 1979Ibid. 3 May 602/2 A generation ago, we still lived in an age of innocence, televisually, and politicians were apt to come on the box as themselves. 1981Times 27 June 6/2 Who better than Russell, with his televisually perfect mane of white hair?
Add: televisuˈality n. rare.
1978–9M. Eaton in Screen Winter 68 The necessity to recognize television as signifying practice..must allow us to deal with the forms of television..in their formal effectivity, not as aesthetic device or evidence of televisuality. 1984Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 1275/2 The two qualities which even a master of claptrap must have for success in the world of mass media; quotability and televisuality. |