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visualism

visualism noun: the privileging of vision over other means of sensory perception.

Noun

visualism (uncountable)

  1. The privileging of vision over other means of sensory perception.
    • Yet, others have dismissed Fabian's visualism as a naïve critique rooted in the very processes he tries to undermine. For his critics, Fabian's analysis does not so much successfully critique the dominance of vision as grant other senses the dominating power he seeks to take away from vision […]2013, James Elkins, Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Discipline, page 279
    • […] Don Ihde's book analyzes the role of visualism in science, that is the trend to present diverse aspects of the world in a visual form. Don Ihde maintains that visualism was a cultural choice, historically reinforcing itself […]2014, Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki, Technen: Elements of Recent History of Information Technologies with Epistemological Conclusions

Origin of visualism

From visual + -ism.

Questions about visualism

What does visualism mean?
Visualism means the privileging of vision over other means of sensory perception.
What part of speech is visualism?
Visualism is a noun.

Words near visualism in the dictionary

  1. visualised
  2. visualiser
  3. visualisers
  4. visualises
  5. visualising
  6. visualism
  7. visualist
  8. visualists
  9. visualities
  10. visuality
  11. visualizability

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