viscerallyadverb
/ˈvɪs.ər.əl.i//ˈvɪs.ər.əl.i/in a way that is based on deep feeling and emotional reactions rather than on reason or thought:
The performance was both viscerally exciting and intellectually satisfying.
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- No issue is felt more viscerally by Europeans than the death penalty.
- Her memoir viscerally connects readers with the hopes and losses she lived with then.
- Right-wing talk shows abounded with callers viscerally enraged at the fact evacuees were receiving a onetime two-thousand-dollar payment to help them buy food and find lodgings.
- They react viscerally and emotionally instead of applying objective rationale to a discussion.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Expressing and showing feelings
- abandon
- affective
- be in/get into a state idiom
- beat your breast/chest idiom
- beetroot
- bubble
- expression
- flame
- hot and heavy idiom
- impassioned
- lose it idiom
- marvel
- moved
- pine
- throw
- vocalize
- wear your heart on your sleeve idiom
- whimper
- wring
- wring your hands idiom
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