ocularcentrism means the privileging of vision over the other senses. It carries an Arena rating of 1262, earned across 160 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, ocularcentrism ranks #2,141 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #2,863 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say, #3,461 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #5,858 of 17,151 for The Improbable.
Why “ocularcentrism” is a great word
OCULARCENTRISM — [Noun] The cultural and cognitive privileging of vision over the other senses in structuring perception, knowledge, and social order. From ocular (relating to the eye or vision) + -centrism (denoting a centered or dominant focus). Unlike multisensoriality, which champions the integrated concert of all senses, or audism, which denotes a specific bias toward hearing, ocularcentrism is the pervasive, often unexamined framework that elevates sight to epistemological supremacy. It is the museum guard’s hissed prohibition against touch, the cityscape valued only for its skyline while its soundscape is dismissed as noise, and the quiet tyranny of a culture where ‘seeing is believing’ renders taste and scent as merely corroborative. We live in a world built for the gaze, where the unseen is too easily forgotten.
Etymology
From ocular + -centrism.
noun
- The privileging of vision over the other senses.
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