eye-minded

American  

[ahy-mahyn-did] / ˈaɪˈmaɪn dɪd /

adjective

1. disposed to perceive one's environment in visual terms and to recall sights more vividly than sounds, smells, etc.

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Other Word Forms

• eye-mindedness
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of eye-minded

First recorded in 1885–90

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Example Sentences

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eye-minded

This brilliancy of male plumage in the presence of the somber color of his mate would seem to indicate that the English sparrow is eye-minded rather than ear-minded.

From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker

It is true among human beings that most of them are eye-minded.

From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker

For example, aside from the desirable rate of advance for each person, which has already been mentioned, a student maybe eye-minded, or ear- minded, or motor-minded.

From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by Frank M. (Frank Morton) McMurry

The Visual Type.—The so-called "visuals," or "eye-minded" people among us, are numerically the largest class of the sensory population.

From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin

We know how essentially eye-minded the Egyptian was, to use a modern psychological phrase—that is to say, how essential to him it seemed that all his conceptions should be visualized.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams

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