supervisual

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1. Strongly or predominantly visual.

   The heightened attention to issues of representation is precipitated, in good part, by the advent of new, supervisual media.

   2009, Geoffrey H. Hartman, A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe

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   Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

   2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book

2. Beyond the threshold of vision, thus invisible.

   So we build equipment to see light beyond the rainbow's spectrum, supervisual light like x-rays, and sub-visual light like radio waves.

   2016, Ransom Stephens, The Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs

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1. Of or relating to supervision.

   While the centralized state, administrative, political or supervisual remains, there can be no real democracy, a loose confederation of communities at a national level without any centralized state whatsoever.

   2010, Gary W. O'Brien, Oswald's Politics, page 213