visuality

English

Etymology

From visual +‎ -ity, from Latin visualitas.

Noun

visuality (countable and uncountable, plural visualities)

1. The quality of being visual
   • 1840, Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship‎^[1]:

     Not the general whole only; every compartment of it is worked out, with intense earnestness, into truth, into clear visuality.

   • 1912, Frederic Stewart Isham, A Man and His Money‎^[2]:

     The scope of his mental visuality no longer included the figure of the agent from the private detective bureau.

   • 2008 November 23, Kevin Kelly, “Becoming Screen Literate”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift — from book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality.

2. Physical appearance.
   • 1997, Sheldon H. Lu, Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (page 353)

     After all, her "visuality" is that of a "narrative image" — the bruised, abused, and overused but essentially young and sensuous, primitively vital female figure that carries the burden of the narrative movement and whose consumption brings about the narrative closure.

3. vision (mental picture) (Can we add an example for this sense?)