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visucentric

visucentric adjective: designed in a manner that is visually optimal for deaf and hard-of-hearing people; pertaining to designs that focus on visual access.

Adjective

visucentric (comparative more visucentric, superlative most visucentric)

  1. Designed in a manner that is visually optimal for deaf and hard-of-hearing people; pertaining to designs that focus on visual access.
    • In a visucentric world, spatial awareness comes from cues that are subtle and may go unnoticed to the hearing. (Deaf Diverse Design Guide web site)
  2. Of art, literature, etc.: focusing mainly on what the eyes perceive.
    • Much of the poetry included in John Lee Clark's Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology is visucentric.

Forms of visucentric

comparativemore visucentric
superlativemost visucentric
alternative formvisu-centric
alternative formvisuocentric

Origin of visucentric

From visu- + -centric.

Questions about visucentric

What does visucentric mean?
Visucentric means designed in a manner that is visually optimal for deaf and hard-of-hearing people; pertaining to designs that focus on visual access.
What part of speech is visucentric?
Visucentric is an adjective.

Words near visucentric in the dictionary

  1. visuall
  2. visually
  3. visually impaired
  4. visualness
  5. visuals
  6. visucentric
  7. visuo-
  8. visuoauditory
  9. visuocentric
  10. visuocentrism
  11. visuocognitive

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