nonvisual

/ˌnän-ˈvi-zhə-wəl -zhəl; -ˈvizh-wəl/ (ame, mw)

nonvisual — 形容詞

  • nonvisualpositive
  • more nonvisualcomparative
  • most nonvisualsuperlative

1. describing something that does not involve the eyes or sight — for example, lear

1.形容詞C1
釋義

非視覺的

不透過視覺感知或呈現的

describing something that does not involve the eyes or sight — for example, learning through sound and touch, or signals carried by smell, vibration, or speech rather than by what a person can look at.

例句

Soraya designed a museum tour that relied on nonvisual cues such as smell and music.

Soraya 設計了一條博物館導覽路線,主要靠氣味和音樂等非視覺線索。

attributive: nonvisual + cues / signals

Many bats hunt insects at night using nonvisual senses like echolocation and hearing.

許多蝙蝠會在夜間利用回聲定位和聽覺等非視覺感官來捕捉昆蟲。

attributive: nonvisual + senses

同義詞
  • non-visual

    British hyphenated spelling of the same word; meaning and use are identical

  • auditory

    narrower; specifically about hearing rather than any non-sight channel

  • tactile

    narrower; specifically about touch, often used together with 'nonvisual' in accessibility design

反義詞
  • visual

    the direct opposite — relating to sight or how something looks

  • visible

    able to be seen; contrasts with the 'not perceived by sight' side of nonvisual

文法句型

nonvisual + noun

be + nonvisual

用法筆記

Frequently used in science, education, and accessibility writing where the contrast with sight-based methods matters. The American spelling is solid 'nonvisual'; British writers sometimes use the hyphenated form 'non-visual'.

常見錯誤

The painting is nonvisual because it is very dark.
The painting is hard to see because it is very dark.
💡nonvisual means the eyes are not involved at all, not that something is simply difficult to look at.