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visceral

[ vis-er-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the viscera.
  2. affecting the viscera.
  3. of the nature of or resembling viscera.
  4. characterized by or proceeding from instinct rather than intellect:

    a visceral reaction.

  5. characterized by or dealing with coarse or base emotions; earthy; crude:

    a visceral literary style.



visceral

/ ˈvɪsərəl /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or affecting the viscera
  2. characterized by intuition or instinct rather than intellect


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Derived Forms

  • ˈviscerally, adverb

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Other Words From

  • viscer·al·ly adverb
  • non·viscer·al adjective
  • un·viscer·al adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of visceral1

First recorded in 1565–75; from Medieval Latin viscerālis, equivalent to viscer(a) ( viscera ) + -ālis -al 1

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Example Sentences

The scenes between Johansson and Adam Pearson, a man with neurofibromatosis, are some of the most delicate and visceral this year.

Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.

JUDNICK: My reaction is so visceral that I immediately, like you, isolate myself so I can breathe.

That single chapter, the most visceral and moving part of The Power Broker, took Caro six months to research and write.

With that tape, we “knew” what had happened in a far more visceral, powerful way than words alone could convey.

There was no true cohesion, no depth, nothing except a web of surface reactions, stretched across automatic visceral movements.

The pleuro-peritoneal cavity is first distinctly formed at a time when only two visceral clefts are present.

The visceral clefts necessarily divide it into separate parts.

The embryo from which the section was taken possessed five visceral clefts, but no trace of external gills.

In the region of the head it exhibits on each side a slight bulging outwards, the rudiment of the first visceral cleft.

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