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visile, a. and n.|ˈvɪzaɪl|
[f. L. vīs-us sight + -ile, after tactile, audile.]
A. adj. Responding most readily to visual sensations; thinking predominantly in visual images.
B. n. A person of this kind; = visual n. 2, visualist 1.
1909[see audile a.]. 1927J. Adams Errors in School 74 This does not imply that the visiles get their knowledge entirely through the eye. 1940Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXXI. 56 The theory of the existence of a ‘visile’ type. Ibid. 60 A theory that adolescents who draw men well tend to be of high..intelligence, to be ‘visiles’ in their thinking. 1954J. Evans John Ruskin 411 He [sc. John Ruskin] had..a visile mind. 1960Menon & Patel Teaching of Eng. as Foreign Lang. (ed. 2) iv. 26 Galton classified individuals, with reference to the sense that dominated his memory, into visiles, audiles and kinaesthetic. |