Visceral

Quick meaning: Visceral is an adjective meaning Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (Apparently) situated in the viscera or the interior of the body.
2. (anatomy) 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”).

Example Sentences

visceral remains

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

[W]hat sign / Of visceral lightness, coloured to a shade, / May charm the genial gods, and what fair spots / Commend the lung and liver.

[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.

Synonyms for visceral

Depending on context, synonyms include splanchnic, intuitive, natural, glandular.

Antonyms for visceral

Common opposites include intellectual, parietal, cerebral.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include splanchnic, glandular, natural, intuitive, gut, inner.

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