televisualadj.
/ˌtɛlᵻˈvɪʒʊ(ə)l/, /ˌtɛlᵻˈvɪzjʊ(ə)l/, /ˌtɛlᵻˈvɪʒ(ᵿ)l/, /ˌtɛlᵻˈvɪzj(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒ(ə)wəl/ Of, relating to, or characteristic of television; appearing on or suitable for television.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > broadcasting > television > [adjective]
televisual1912
televisionary1927
televisional1929
videographic1949
1912 Muskogee (Okla.) Times-Democrat 14 Mar. 5/2 A televisual apparatus that does for the eye all that the telephone does for the ear.
1928 San Antonio (Texas) Express 17 Jan. 12/4 Equipped with a televisual receiver,..any person might sit in his easy chair and..view many lands.
1959 Listener 12 Feb. 303/1 Here was something that the theatre could not do, something essentially televisual.
1973 Church Times 16 Nov. 9 Filmic or televisual violence breeds or releases violence in the viewer.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 July 842/2 It is because he keeps in practice with televisual mannerisms that he is so successful a natural in a television-dominated world.
1987 R. Randhawa Wicked Old Woman 51 She would go and see Maya and tell her of this televisual opportunity.
2011 Independent 24 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 24/3 My parents were what would now be called ‘late adopters’ in televisual matters.
Derivatives
televisuˈality n. [ < tele- comb. form + visuality n., after televisual adj.] the quality of being televisual.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > a television broadcast > qualities of
actuality1925
televisibility1942
viewability1950
televisuality1970
1970 Time & Tide 9 Apr. 7/3 There are others who think that Mr Burnet has managed to combine televisuality and economics rather well.
1992 Independent (Nexis) 10 Aug. 16 The International Olympic Committee should not concern itself with televisuality.
2015 R. Wilson in R. Sabin et al. Cop Shows iii. 31 75 percent of the series was shot on location in New York City, lending it a documentary-like televisuality.
teleˈvisually adv. from the point of view of television, as regards television; on or for television.In pre-televisually in quot. 1928 apparently referring to an imagined means of showing images of distant events which have not yet happened.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [adverb]
television-wise1945
televisually1949
1928 Spectator 20 Oct. (Lit. Suppl.) 544/1 In 2028..we shall have posters something like this... ‘Next week Thursday's Revolution in Mexico, relayed pre-televisually from Vera Cruz.’]
1949 N.Y. Times 27 Mar. 45/4 (advt.) Magnavox. America's great value. Tonally, Visually and Televisually.
1967 Listener 9 Feb. 207/2 We had on this uncomfortable occasion not Shakespeare re-worked televisually..but a kind of compromise with what had already been worked in an alien medium.
2004 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 30/9 It's difficult to care in the least about how they get on, despite plenty of televisually friendly segments.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1912