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supervisual

supervisual adjective: strongly or predominantly visual.

Adjective (1)

supervisual (comparative more supervisual, superlative most supervisual)

  1. Strongly or predominantly visual.
    • The heightened attention to issues of representation is precipitated, in good part, by the advent of new, supervisual media.2009, Geoffrey H. Hartman, A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe
    • Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book
  2. Beyond the threshold of vision, thus invisible.
    • So we build equipment to see light beyond the rainbow's spectrum, supervisual light like x-rays, and sub-visual light like radio waves.2016, Ransom Stephens, The Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs

Adjective (2)

supervisual (comparative more supervisual, superlative most supervisual)

  1. Of or relating to supervision.
    • While the centralized state, administrative, political or supervisual remains, there can be no real democracy, a loose confederation of communities at a national level without any centralized state whatsoever.2010, Gary W. O'Brien, Oswald's Politics, page 213

Forms of supervisual

comparativemore supervisual
superlativemost supervisual

Origin of supervisual

From super- + visual.

Questions about supervisual

What does supervisual mean?
Supervisual means strongly or predominantly visual.
What part of speech is supervisual?
Supervisual is an adjective.

Words near supervisual in the dictionary

  1. supervisory
  2. supervisory board
  3. supervisory boards
  4. supervisour
  5. supervisours
  6. supervisual
  7. supervive
  8. supervived
  9. superviving
  10. supervixen
  11. supervixens

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