"visuality" meaning in English

See visuality in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: visualities [plural]
Etymology: From visual + -ity, from Latin visualitas. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|visual|ity}} visual + -ity, {{der|en|la|visualitas}} Latin visualitas Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} visuality (countable and uncountable, plural visualities)
  1. The quality of being visual Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-visuality-en-noun-h5jvGvaQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 14 14 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 80 4 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 80 11 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 2 5
  2. Physical appearance. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-visuality-en-noun-PCBMq4f3
  3. vision (mental picture) Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-visuality-en-noun-QtQbCRTb

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1840, Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship:",
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          "ref": "1912, Frederic Stewart Isham, A Man and His Money:",
          "text": "The scope of his mental visuality no longer included the figure of the agent from the private detective bureau.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 November 23, Kevin Kelly, “Becoming Screen Literate”, in New York Times:",
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        {
          "ref": "1997, Sheldon H. Lu, Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (page 353)",
          "text": "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."
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          "ref": "2008 November 23, Kevin Kelly, “Becoming Screen Literate”, in New York Times:",
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