supervisual
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]supervisual (comparative more supervisual, superlative most supervisual)
- Strongly or predominantly visual.
- 2009, Geoffrey H. Hartman, A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe:
- The heightened attention to issues of representation is precipitated, in good part, by the advent of new, supervisual media.
- 2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:
- Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
- Beyond the threshold of vision, thus invisible.
- 2016, Ransom Stephens, The Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs:
- So we build equipment to see light beyond the rainbow's spectrum, supervisual light like x-rays, and sub-visual light like radio waves.
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]supervisual (comparative more supervisual, superlative most supervisual)
- Of or relating to supervision.
- 2010, Gary W. O'Brien, Oswald's Politics, page 213:
- While the centralized state, administrative, political or supervisual remains, there can be no real democracy, a loose confederation of communities at a national level without any centralized state whatsoever.