Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to, situated in, or affecting the viscera.
- adj. 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).
- adj. Instinctive: visceral needs. See Synonyms at instinctive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the viscera; having the character of a viscus; forming or containing viscera; interior or intestinal, as a part or organ of the body; splanchnic: as, visceral anatomy; a visceral cavity; visceral disease; the visceral loop of the nerves of a mollusk; the visceral as distinguished from the reflected or parietal layer of a serous membrane.
- Belonging to or situated on that side of the body of a vertebrate which contains the viscera of the thorax; abdominal; ventral or hemal, as distinguished from dorsal or neural.
Wiktionary
- adj. anatomy Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.
- adj. Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or affecting the viscera; splanchnic.
- adj. rare Fig.: Having deep sensibility.
- adj. proceeding from emotion or instinct rather than from intellect; deeply emotional; -- .
- adj. dealing with coarse or base emotions; -- .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
- adj. relating to or affecting the viscera
Etymologies
- From Latin viscera, plural of viscus ("any internal organ of the body"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This is the disruption or abnormal stimulation of the inner ear's vestibular system by turbine infrasound and low-frequency noise, the most distinctive feature of which is a group of symptoms which she calls visceral vibratory vestibular disturbance, or VVVD.”
“The detail of the interactions between the badly paid women, their resentful families, the loan sharks, the exploitative employers, and the distant forces of law and order, are all depicted in visceral detail.”
“In the article, Boroom talks about an article, "Role for protease activity in visceral pain in irritable bowel syndrome", by Nicolas Cenac.”
“If the live versions lacked the suppleness and textural variety of the recording, they made up for that in visceral punch.”
Berlin in Lights: Is There Pop After Weimar? - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
“The Tarantino, by contrast, has flashes of interest and eventually achieves a certain visceral impact, but it's long-winded and juvenile, the work of a director who hasn't grown and, what's more, seems afraid to try.”
“Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery.”
A Million Little Pieces: Summary and book reviews of A Million Little Pieces by James Frey.
“What I think is going on is a certain visceral fear of something un-American creeping into the discourse of American constitutionalism.”
“There's something I call the visceral level of processing.”
“By turns I’m moved by the beauty of these most gorgeous, bountiful, lovingly given warm and bright rooms, then recoil in visceral refusal of the things that leap headlong over the shark, like, as Hmm says, that evil shallow fish tank of a bathroom sink, the translucent causeway roof that some poor cratur will have to get up and clean … to name a few.”
“I don’t have any strong views on the use of donor sperm for married couples wanting a child that is (half) biologically theirs; using sperm from a relative makes a certain visceral sense, although it would complicate relations with the in-laws and extended family immensely.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘visceral’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Familiar
Just a list of words
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Iaan
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allover
reintegrate, spight, surveillant, harmonize, Colophon, workplace, bigoted, unsighted, bridgework, salutation, voltmeter, octane and 159 more...
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
zona incerta, mucous membrane, secretomotor, tear film, tear sac, duodenum, horripilation, peduncle, pelvic outlet, canal of Schlemm, visceral, chromosomal cross... and 189 more...
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my fab list
blowsabella, aperçu, froideur, salubrious, abject, gallipot, mumchance, wainscot, virago, macerate, lascivious, clandestine and 181 more...
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SAT 2
platitude, parsimonious, perspicacious, catharsis, captious, munificent, penurious, arid, portentous, ossified, nascent, perfidy and 13 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
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Burroughs
Detestable words
purulence, bête noire, exigent, exculpate, desideratum, lucriferous, concomitant, pertinacious, pervicacious, gemütlichkeit, sublimate, sanfroid and 38 more...
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brian's biffs
melancholy, bucolic, visceral, cacophony, burlesque, exogenous, epiphany, monetization, accretive, opulent, splendid, seismic and 10 more...
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Favorites
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Reading Vocab
ulterior, warrant, syllogism, precious, impiety, maroon, aigrette, batiste, topsy-turvy ago, midnight crush, cantankerous, slovenly and 180 more...
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Stumbled Words
A list of words that I stumbled upon while reading.
penumbra, prolix, propitious, resplendence, sepulchral, Weltschmerz, apparition, brigand, probity, chalice, paroxysm, pallor and 160 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for visceral.
seanahan A much better word than gutty, or the phrase "goes with his gut". Jan 1, 2009
Telofy viceral, gut and this video are tightly intertwined in my mind. Dec 24, 2008
gregmiller Characterized by instinct rather than intellect; earthy or crude Dec 24, 2008
whichbe "The Gut" -- belly chakra -- intuition. Dec 16, 2008