单词 | visuality |
释义 | visualityn. 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). < n.1841 |
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