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visceral

adj
/ˈvɪsəɹəl/CA/ˈvəsəɹəl/

Etymology

From Middle French viscéral (modern French viscéral), or from its etymon Medieval Latin viscerālis (“internal”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Viscerālis is derived from Latin viscera (a plural form of vīscus (“internal organ of the body”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to rotate, turn”)) + -ālis (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). cognates * Old French visceral (Middle French viscéral, modern French viscéral) * Italian viscerale * Spanish visceral

  1. derived from *weys-✻ — “to rotate, turn”
  2. derived from viscera
  3. derived from viscerālis — “internal”
  4. derived from viscéral

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to, made up of, or positioned among or within, the viscera (“internal…

    Of or relating to, made up of, or positioned among or within, the viscera (“internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities”).

    • visceral remains
    • [W]hat sign / Of visceral lightness, coloured to a shade, / May charm the genial gods, and what fair spots / Commend the lung and liver.
    • Some areolar tissue free from elastic tissue was next procured from the visceral cavity of a toad, and moderately sized, as well as very small, bits were placed on five leaves.

  2. Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the…

    Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.

    • Our meditation of his [Jesus's] death should be more viſeral, and affect us more, becauſe it is of a thing already done.
    • [T]he discretion of an aristocrat is in his head, a tactical detail, it has nothing to do with this visceral sinking, this ebb in the nerves.

  3. (Apparently) situated in the viscera or the interior of the body.

    • [T]here is none good but God; there is centrical, visceral, gremial gold, goodness in the root, in the tree of goodness, God.

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Derived

paravisceral, perivisceral, supravisceral, visceralise, visceralize, visceralising, visceralizing, viscerality, visceralization, visceral leishmaniasis, viscerally, visceral pleura, visceral skeleton

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for visceral. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA