Synonyms for visceral
ˈvɪs ər əlvis·cer·al

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1. visceraladjective

   Synonyms:
   splanchnic

   Antonyms:
   cerebral

2. visceraladjective

   Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.

   Synonyms:
   splanchnic

   Antonyms:
   cerebral

3. visceraladjective

   Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.

   Synonyms:
   splanchnic

   Antonyms:
   cerebral

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. visceral, splanchnicadjective

   relating to or affecting the viscera

   "visceral bleeding"; "a splanchnic nerve"

   Synonyms:
   splanchnic, intuitive, nonrational

   Antonyms:
   logical

2. intuitive, nonrational, visceraladjective

   obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation

   Synonyms:
   splanchnic, intuitive, nonrational

   Antonyms:
   logical

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "visceral":

   knee-jerk

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1. Loretta Lynch:

   He said it's clear to me that there is a cadre of senior people in New York who have a deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton, i'm just troubled that this issue, meaning the, the New York agent issue and leaks, I am just troubled that this issue has put us where we are today with respect to this laptop.

2. Ian Daniel:

   What I take from that is there was a need for these stories, and we’re fulfilling that on some level, there’s a lack of diversity in storytelling, especially on television… and it’s not just about LGBT people, it’s people of color, it’s all minorities… we just need to be aware of what people are experiencing. If you’re not experiencing that and you’re a producer or filmmaker, just take the time to educate yourself a little bit, or to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, and I think that just makes for better content everywhere. For our show, we just want people to have some sort of visceral reaction. Hopefully they like it, but it’s cool if people don’t and we can create a dialogue and have a real conversation.

3. WhIsBe:

   I'm hoping that people are going to experience a different visceral reaction that will maybe change their thoughts about the matter into provoking them into action.

4. Governor Walz:

   It was so incredibly human, it wasn't Jay-Z international celebrity, it was a dad and, quite honestly, a black man with visceral pain that he knew.

5. Patty Jenkins:

   I want it to move to the next generation of women, and inspired the next generation of women, there is some visceral identity that people have with the character that I played, because they went in their backyards and they pretended to be her. We share that goddess within, maybe, and I enjoy hearing those stories. So I don’t really tire of it.