supervisual

English

Etymology 1

super- +‎ visual

Adjective

supervisual (comparative more supervisual, superlative most supervisual)

1. Strongly or predominantly visual.
   • 2009, Geoffrey H. Hartman, A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe:

     The heightened attention to issues of representation is precipitated, in good part, by the advent of new, supervisual media.

   • 2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:

     Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

2. Beyond the threshold of vision, thus invisible.
   • 2016, Ransom Stephens, The Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs:

     So we build equipment to see light beyond the rainbow's spectrum, supervisual light like x-rays, and sub-visual light like radio waves.

Etymology 2

Adjective

supervisual (comparative more supervisual, superlative most supervisual)

1. Of or relating to supervision.
   • 2010, Gary W. O'Brien, Oswald's Politics, page 213:

     While the centralized state, administrative, political or supervisual remains, there can be no real democracy, a loose confederation of communities at a national level without any centralized state whatsoever.