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Visceral

//ˈvɪsəɹəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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"

  2. 2
    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”).; Of a disease: involving the viscera.
  3. 3
    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”).; Of or relating to the viscera or bowels regarded as the origin of a person's emotions; hence (figuratively), relating to or having deep internal feelings or sensibility.

    "[…] Christ sends Paracletum, in a more entire, and a more internal, and more visceral sense, a Comforter."

  4. 4
    Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking. figuratively

    "Our meditation of his [Jesus's] death should be more viſeral, and affect us more, becauſe it is of a thing already done."

  5. 5
    (Apparently) situated in the viscera or the interior of the body. figuratively, obsolete

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to or affecting the viscera wordnet

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

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