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visuocentric

visuocentric is the alternative form of visucentric.

Meaning of visucentric

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 visuocentric

comparativemore visuocentric
superlativemost visuocentric

Origin of visuocentric

From visuo- + -centric.

Questions about visuocentric

What is visuocentric the alternative form of?
Visuocentric is the alternative form of visucentric.

Words near visuocentric in the dictionary

  1. visualness
  2. visuals
  3. visucentric
  4. visuo-
  5. visuoauditory
  6. visuocentric
  7. visuocentrism
  8. visuocognitive
  9. visuoconstruction
  10. visuoconstructional
  11. visuoconstructive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: visuocentric (page history and authors); visucentric (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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