visceral

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There's something I call the visceral level of processing.

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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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  • There's something I call the visceral level of processing. —  Don Norman on 3 ways good design makes you happy
  • 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
  • Their visceral, anti-government, private media campaign, predicting economic "crisis" and "catastrophe", began after the fall in the oil price began in July 2008. —  axisoflogic.com
  • He also discussed his "visceral" contempt for me, indicating that personal animosity was a factor in his remarks. —  WordPress.com News
  • The plot is incredibly light, eschewing the intellectual for the visceral, and simply tells a solid, if unspectacular, war story. —  Destructoid
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  1. = French viscéral; as viscera + -al.
 

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