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nonvisual

nonvisual adjective: not visual.

Adjective

nonvisual (not comparable)

  1. Not visual.
    • When I was a child, it was a very nonvisual universe, and people with a sense of the visual were not respected."2001 May 11, Andrew Lawler, “VISUALIZING SCIENCE: New Imaging Tools Put the Art Back Into Science”, in Science, volume 292, number 5519, →DOI, pages 1044–1047
    • Involuntary shifts of spatial attention caused by the appearance of nonvisual stimuli do seem to produce similar enhancements of neural responses to visual stimuli within visual cortex (19, 20 ), but the details of how this occurs remain to be discovered.2001 June 8, John J. McDonald et al., “Multisensory Integration and Crossmodal Attention Effects in the Human Brain”, in Science, volume 292, number 5523, →DOI

Forms of nonvisual

alternative formnon-visual

Origin of nonvisual

From non- + visual.

Words formed from nonvisual

Questions about nonvisual

What does nonvisual mean?
Nonvisual means not visual.
What part of speech is nonvisual?
Nonvisual is an adjective.

Words near nonvisual in the dictionary

  1. nonvisitation
  2. nonvisited
  3. nonvisiting
  4. nonvisitor
  5. nonvisitors
  6. nonvisual
  7. nonvisualization
  8. nonvisualized
  9. nonvisually
  10. nonvital
  11. nonvitamin

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