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visuality

noun

visuality is a noun meaning “The quality of being visual” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-S-U-A-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of visuality is visualities.

What does visuality mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being visual

  2. 2

    Physical appearance.

    After all, her "visuality" is that of a "narrative image" – the bruised, abused, and overused but essentially young and sensuous, primitively vital female figure that carries the burden of the narrative movement and whose consumption brings

  3. 3

    vision (mental picture)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of visuality

  • visualities plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is visuality?

Visuality appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does visuality come from?

From visual + -ity, from Latin visualitas.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).