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单词 visuality
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visualityn.

Brit. /ˌvɪʒjʊˈalᵻti/, /ˌvɪzjʊˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌvɪʒʊˈælədi/
Etymology: < visual adj. + -ity suffix. Compare late Latin vīsuālitas.
1. The state or quality of being visual or visible to the mind; mental visibility.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > imaginable quality
imaginability1830
visuality1841
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 149 Every compartment of it is worked out, with intense earnestness, into truth, into clear visuality.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. viii. 685 The image he has of his Burial, we perceive, is of perfect visuality, equal to what a Defoe could do in imagining.
2. With a and plural. A mental picture or vision.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun]
huea1000
imagination1340
imagea1393
portraiturea1393
trowc1460
fume1531
imaginary1594
phantasm1594
trajection1594
representationa1602
idolum1619
object1651
tablature1661
fancy1663
representamen1677
phantom1686
presentment1817
fantasy1823
projection1836
visuality1841
thought-picture1844
imago1863
vestige1885
1841 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) IV. 242 We must..catch a few more visualities.
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 154 We have a pleasant visuality of an old summer afternoon ‘in the Queen's Court’ two hundred years ago.
1912 H. Bradley Let. in Corr. Bridges & Bradley (1940) 96 I do not think I can even say or hear ‘bread and butter’, or ‘dog and cat’, without an accompanying under~consciousness of the way in which these words are commonly spelt. (It may be deplorable that any human soul should have got into this degraded state of subjection to black and white visualities.)
3. Vision, sight.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun]
i-sightc888
seneOE
lightOE
eyesightc1175
sightc1200
rewarda1382
seeingc1390
viewc1390
outwitc1400
starec1400
speculation1471
eyec1475
vision1493
ray1531
visive power1543
sightfulnessa1586
outsight1605
conspectuitya1616
visibility1616
optics1643
rock of eye1890
visuality1923
1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 27 You are everywhere, and I am blind, Sightless among all your visuality, You staring caryatids.
1941 Illustr. London News 198 37 Immediately in front of the driver is a movable periscope, shown reflecting the other tanks ahead, whereby he can obtain full visuality when the armoured cowl has to be closed when in action.
4. Visual aspect or representation; physical appearance.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun]
onseneeOE
bleea1000
shapeOE
ylikeOE
laitc1175
semblanta1225
sightc1275
fare1297
showingc1300
specea1325
parelc1330
guise1340
countenance1362
semblance?a1366
apparel1377
regardc1380
apparencec1384
imagec1384
spicec1384
overseeminga1398
kenninga1400
seemingc1400
visage1422
rinda1450
semenauntc1450
'pearance1456
outwardc1475
representation1489
favour?a1500
figurea1522
assemblant1523
prospect?1533
respect1535
visure1545
perceiverance1546
outwardshine1549
view1556
species1559
utter-shape1566
look1567
physiognomy1567
face1572
paintry1573
visor1575
mienc1586
superficies?1589
behaviour1590
aspect1594
complexion1597
confrontment1604
show1604
aira1616
beseeminga1616
formality1615
resemblancea1616
blush1620
upcomea1630
presentment1637
scheme1655
sensation1662
visibility1669
plumage1707
facies1727
remark1748
extrinsica1797
exterior1801
showance1820
the cut of one's jib1823
personnel1839
personal appearance1842
what-like1853
look-see1898
outwall1933
visuality1938
prosopon1947
1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art vii. 144 His [sc. Cézanne's] landscapes have lost almost every trace of visuality.
1975 Physics Bull. Apr. 165/3 Regretfully, the printed word can hardly do justice to the visuality of the afternoon.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Mar. 251/1 Notable among the elements of visuality which lead to the effect of amenity is that of scale.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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