What does visceral mean?

visceral means "relating to or affecting the viscera". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in visceral?

visceral has 3 syllables: vis-ce-ral. The stress falls on "vis". In IPA it is /ˈvɪsɚəl/.

What is another word for visceral?

Close synonyms include splanchnic, intuitive, nonrational. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is visceral a common word?

visceral is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

visceral — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
relating to or affecting the viscera
“visceral bleeding”
“a splanchnic nerve”
Synonymssplanchnic
2.
obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
Synonymsintuitive nonrational
Similarillogical

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