Meanings (ES + gloss)
visceral
Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.
Television and other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral, and involve the individual almost without volition. As a result [Marshall] McLuhan believes that the wor…
[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.
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