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visuality

visuality

7.3
The way things look and how people see or understand them
  • noun
  • /vɪˈzuːəlɪti/
  • Jargon
translation icon : visualidad
  • In digital media, the visuality of a website can greatly impact how users perceive and interact with its content.
  • Visuality and vision
  • Art and visuality

Examples

  • There is no way, in short, to keep visuality and visual images out of the study of language and literature.

    Academic text (1995)
  • One instance of this problem is precisely the visuality of memorials.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Importance of visuality, Yes, in making the connection between science and the street.

  • You learn about them through your eyes, but their visuality is a secondary feature.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Therefore, if there is no visuality, it is not possible to educate students.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Second, it privileges visuality among cultural practices.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Accordingly, prospective teachers think that the most important contribution of information technologies is visuality.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Still, the visuality of glamour came to be a dominant idea in the 1930s, both in the fan magazines and beyond.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Perceived discordances in the visuality of the written language in the urban and rural landscapes became a burning issue.

    Academic text (2003)
  • My analysis reinforces Douglas Nickel's theory that Watkins's work contributes to a shared nineteenth-century visuality of modernization.

    Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

representation
vsvisuality
74 3.5

A picture or model that shows what something looks like

is about the general style of how things are seen, not a specific depiction
visual aspect
vsvisuality
1 4.0

The way something looks to the eye

is broader, describing the style or manner in which things are seen or presented
visibleness
vsvisuality
7.2

How easy it is to see something

focuses on style of perception rather than just whether something can be seen

How Visual

visuality
  • Jargon
7.3

Surface Forms

visuality singular
visualities plural

Morphology

visuality = visual (transparent) = visual + ity

Formed by a regular noun-forming suffix '-ity' added to the adjective 'visual'; the meaning 'the quality or state of being visual' is directly derived.

Etymology

Visuality comes from visual, which has the old root vid- meaning 'to see', the same root as vision. So, visuality is about the way something is seen or shown.