visual literacy

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noun

the ability to apprehend or interpret pictures or other visual images.

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Origin of visual literacy

First recorded in 1970–75

Words nearby visual literacy

visual effect, visual evoked potential, visual field, visualization, visualize, visual literacy, visually, visually handicapped, visually impaired, visual magnitude, visual pigment

How to use visual literacy in a sentence

Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.
How Pulp Fiction Saved Literature|Wendy Smith|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Bottom line is that it will only be a BVR [beyond visual range] airplane.
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019|Dave Majumdar|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most of them were large birds—hawks, egrets, and even peacocks—for spectacular visual effect as they took flight.
The Buddhist Business of Poaching Animals for Good Karma|Brendon Hong|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead, the writers had to rely on visual cues and ambiance.
Yep, Korra and Asami Went in the Spirit Portal and Probably Kissed|Melissa Leon|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Supporters pointed to math and literacy gains, while critics noted that those improvements disappeared in elementary school.
Can the U.S. Government Go Moneyball?|Peter Orszag, Jim Nussle|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He devoured it whole with a kind of visual gulp—a flash; the entire meaning first, then lines, then separate words.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
This hour gives to the imaginative in every land a thrill, a yearning, and a pang of visual regeneration.
The Dragon Painter|Mary McNeil Fenollosa
For this reason the photographic images are less sensitive to conditions affecting the seeing than the visual images.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters|James Edward Keeler
For visual observation the Crossley telescope is provided with seven eyepieces, with powers ranging from 620 downward.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters|James Edward Keeler
However the scout did not move toward it until after a long moment of both visual and mental inspection of his surroundings.
Star Born|Andre Norton