visualist

English

Etymology

visual +‎ -ist

Noun

visualist (plural visualists)

1. A person with a strong visual sense.
   • 1990, John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1885-1953, page 253:

     It is not necessary to keep talking to children about imagery. It is rather better to suggest the scene and give them time to image it for themselves. Many children are naturally pretty strong visualists.

   • 2001, G. E. Hollingworth, A Primer of Literary Criticism, page 27:

     There are, too, less subtle kinds of suggestion — the use of colour words, for instance. Some of us are bad visualists; the poet may describe meadows and lakes, mountains and oceans, but we cannot see them; […]