obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
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Visceral \Vis"cer*al\, a. [Cf. F. visc['e]ral, LL. visceralis.] 1. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or affecting the viscera; splanchnic.
2. Fig.: Having deep sensibility. [R.] --Bp. Reynolds.
3. proceeding from emotion or instinct rather than from intellect; deeply emotional; -- as, a visceral reaction. [PJC]
4. dealing with coarse or base emotions; -- as, a visceral literary style. --[RHUD] [PJC]
{Visceral arches} (Anat.), the bars or ridges between the visceral clefts.
{Visceral cavity} or {Visceral tube} (Anat.), the ventral cavity of a vertebrate, which contains the alimentary canal, as distinguished from the dorsal, or cerebro-spinal, canal.
{Visceral clefts} (Anat.), transverse clefts on the sides just back of the mouth in the vertebrate embryo, which open into the pharyngeal portion of the alimentary canal, and correspond to the branchial clefts in adult fishes.
"We have a huge, almost visceral attachment to the show and to each other," he said. "We'll all still be friends, but we'll drift apart.
Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter's proposal to initiate a 4% state income tax is blocked by what an aide calls "visceral opposition" in the state legislature.
Above all, Mr. Brown wants his students to trust their own visceral responses to film.
At the fringes there is a small minority of uncompromising federalists; and opposing them is a larger minority of visceral anti-Europeans.
"Martial arts has a lot of visceral impact.
Still, the negotiators had come a long way since President Reagan put aside his visceral distrust of Moscow and approved the search for ways to lower tensions by destroying some of the world's most powerful weapons.
Instead, "What we see is a lot of visceral reaction to it." That reaction showed up strongly in surveys after the Supreme Court first ruled last summer that flag burning is a form of free speech.
The craving is a visceral one; its consequences range from trivial to profound, from the folding umbrella to the Common Agricultural Policy.
Also, the polls had relatively small sample sizes, and one-night surveys can be difficult to analyze because they measure visceral reaction to a single event.
"I have a negative, visceral reaction to an industry that charges more than 200% a year in interest rates," adds Peter Schliemann, manager of the Babson Enterprise Fund in Boston.
But here visceral immediacy is supplanted by the tame frissons of second-hand symbolism. The only modern director who might do justice to Burroughs is David Lynch (or Burroughs himself).