visuality
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From visual + -ity, from Latin visualitas.
Noun
[edit]visuality (countable and uncountable, plural visualities)
- The quality of being visual
- 1840, Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship[1]:
- Not the general whole only; every compartment of it is worked out, with intense earnestness, into truth, into clear visuality.
- 1912, Frederic Stewart Isham, A Man and His Money[2]:
- The scope of his mental visuality no longer included the figure of the agent from the private detective bureau.
- 2008 November 23, Kevin Kelly, “Becoming Screen Literate”, in New York Times[3]:
- We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift — from book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality.
- Physical appearance.
- 1997, Sheldon H. Lu, Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (page 353)
- After all, her "visuality" is that of a "narrative image" — the bruised, abused, and overused but essentially young and sensuous, primitively vital female figure that carries the burden of the narrative movement and whose consumption brings about the narrative closure.
- 1997, Sheldon H. Lu, Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (page 353)
- vision (mental picture) (Can we add an example for this sense?)