Visceral

[Vis·cer*al]

When something's visceral, you feel it in your guts. A visceral feeling is intuitive there might not be a rational explanation, but you feel that you know what's best, like your visceral reaction against egg salad.

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Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.

Adjective S.
obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation

Adjective
relating to or affecting the viscera; "visceral bleeding"; "a splanchnic nerve"


a.
Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.

a.
Fig.: Having deep sensibility.


Visceral

Vis"cer*al , a. [Cf. F. visc'82ral, LL. visceralis.] 1. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic. 2. Fig.: Having deep sensibility. [R.] Bp. Reynolds. Visceral arches (Anat.), the bars or ridges between the visceral clefts. -- Visceral cavity ∨ tube (Anat.), the ventral cavity of a vertebrate, which contains the alimentary canal, as distinguished from the dorsal, or cerebro-spinal, canal. -- Visceral clefts (Anat.), transverse clefts on the sides just back of the mouth in the vertebrate embryo, which open into the pharyngeal portion of the alimentary canal, and correspond to the branchial clefts in adult fishes.

Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.

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Usage Examples

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

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Other Usage Examples

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

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