Definitions for visceral

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visceral vis·cer·al

Spelling: [vis-er-uh l]

IPA: /ˈvɪs ər əl/

Visceral is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 498 anagrams from letters in visceral (aceilrsv).

Definitions for visceral

adjective

1. of or relating to the viscera.
2. affecting the viscera.
3. of the nature of or resembling viscera.
4. characterized by or proceeding from instinct rather than intellect:
5. characterized by or dealing with coarse or base emotions; earthy; crude:

Origin of visceral

1565-75; Medieval Latin viscerālis, equivalent to viscer- (see viscera) + -ālis -al¹

Examples for visceral

I gathered from your previous testimony that your feeling, visceral feeling, related both to Mrs. Paine and to Mr. Paine.

visceral mass not marked off from the foot, except in Hedylidae.

JUDNICK: My reaction is so visceral that I immediately, like you, isolate myself so I can breathe.

That single chapter, the most visceral and moving part of The Power Broker, took Caro six months to research and write.

The scenes between Johansson and Adam Pearson, a man with neurofibromatosis, are some of the most delicate and visceral this year.

The vascular system of Amphioxus appears at about the same time as the first visceral clefts.

Unfortunately, this degree of visceral insight is not maintained to the end.

Chronic cases are difficult on account of visceral adhesions.

The look of visceral satisfaction on his face was unmistakable.

But that visceral experience of the crowd as a capricious-yet-mindless entity has stayed with me ever since.