visualist
(ˈvɪʒjuːəlɪst, ˈvɪz-)
[f. visual a. + -ist.]
1. (See quot.)
| 1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 731 Charcot, who classified people into ‘visualists’ those whose recollections were chiefly of things seen, who had to read a name in order to remember it; ‘audists’ [etc.]. |
2. = visualizer.
| 1902 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XIII. 544 The visualist probably proceeds more from the standpoint of the object and the enumeration of qualities. |
3. (See quot.)
| 1903 G. M. Stratton Exp. Psych. 128 There are the visualists, who maintain that sight is the only sense that gives us a knowledge of these things. |