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supervisual en · ADJ · etymology 1

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Etymology

From super- + visual.

Meanings

1. Strongly or predominantly visual.
   • The heightened attention to issues of representation is precipitated, in good part, by the advent of new, supervisual media. 2009, Geoffrey H. Hartman, A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe:
   • Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows. 2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:
2. Beyond the threshold of vision, thus invisible.
   • So we build equipment to see light beyond the rainbow's spectrum, supervisual light like x-rays, and sub-visual light like radio waves. 2016, Ransom Stephens, The Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs:

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supervisual en · ADJ · etymology 2

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1. Of or relating to supervision.
   • While the centralized state, administrative, political or supervisual remains, there can be no real democracy, a loose confederation of communities at a national level without any centralized state whatsoever. 2010, Gary W. O'Brien, Oswald's Politics, page 213:

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