visile, a. and n.
(ˈvɪzaɪl)
[f. L. vīs-us sight + -ile, after tactile, audile.]
A. adj. Responding most readily to visual sensations; thinking predominantly in visual images. B. n. A person of this kind; = visual n. 2, visualist 1.
| 1909 [see audile a.]. 1927 J. Adams Errors in School 74 This does not imply that the visiles get their knowledge entirely through the eye. 1940 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXXI. 56 The theory of the existence of a ‘visile’ type. Ibid. 60 A theory that adolescents who draw men well tend to be of high..intelligence, to be ‘visiles’ in their thinking. 1954 J. Evans John Ruskin 411 He [sc. John Ruskin] had..a visile mind. 1960 Menon & Patel Teaching of Eng. as Foreign Lang. (ed. 2) iv. 26 Galton classified individuals, with reference to the sense that dominated his memory, into visiles, audiles and kinaesthetic. |