visceral

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But they can't get to Fannie Mae and things like this -- and I didn't even talk about it that much -- because the other more visceral, the pump, things that your poll and your reporters tonight talked about.

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  1. adjective Relating to, situated in, or affecting the viscera.
  2. adjective Perceived in or as if in the viscera; profound: "The scientific approach to life is not really appropriate to states of visceral anguish” (Anthony Burgess).
  3. adjective Instinctive: visceral needs. See Synonyms at instinctive.

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  • It is therefore referred to as the visceral brain. —  The Human Brain
  • Some visceral, animal instinct encouraged me to run, to jump into the car and get out of town. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • His connection with her was visceral, and it felt wrong not to respond to it. —  Armageddon's Children
  • But they can't get to Fannie Mae and things like this -- and I didn't even talk about it that much -- because the other more visceral, the pump, things that your poll and your reporters tonight talked about. —  CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2008
  • It's so much more subtle, so much much more kind of visceral -- you know, what's visible, what's not. —  Anand Agarawala demos BumpTop
 

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  1. = French viscéral; as viscera + -al.
 

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