visualizern.
1. One who visualizes or has the faculty of forming mental images of invisible things, abstract ideas, conditions, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > one who imagines
imaginatorc1450
imaginer?c1475
conceiver1581
imaginant1605
imaginist1806
fancier1828
visualizer1886
visualist1902
imager1939
1886 E. Gurney et al. Phantasms of Living I. 195 Mrs. Bettany is by nature a good visualiser.
1894 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 266 One may be a visualiser when thinking of music.
a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. 125 For those who are already good visualisers such phenomena as these..present no quite unique experience.
2. spec. in Advertising, a commercial artist employed to design layouts.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > business of advertising > [noun] > designer of advertisement
visualizer1921
1921 R. S. Durstine Making Advertisements ii. 23 Several arrangements suggest themselves immediately if the visualizer has a natural or a trained imagination.
1948 H. Missingham Student's Guide Commerc. Art ii. 157 To see a first-class ‘visualizer’ romp through one with a flat~leaded layout pencil is a sight to stir the blood.
1968 M. Butterworth Walk Softly ii. 30 She worked as a visualiser in an ad agency.
1981 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 5 June 24 (advt.) Visualisers/finished artists..required by a rapidly-expanding studio.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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