[f. VISUAL a. + -IST.]
1. (See quot.)
1895. Pop. Sci. Monthly, XLVI. April, 731–2. Charcot, who classified people into ‘visualists’—those whose recollections were chiefly of things seen, who had to read a name in order to remember it; ‘audists’ [etc.].
1895. Rene Bache, in Boston Even. Transcript, 4 May, 20/3. He had always depended upon sight for remembering everything; he was what psychologists term a ‘visualist.’
2. = VISUALIZER.
1902. Amer. Jrnl. Psychol., XIII. 544. The visualist probably proceeds more from the standpoint of the object and the enumeration of qualities.
3. (See quot.)
1903. G. M. Stratton, Exp. Psych., 128. There are the visualists, who maintain that sight is the only sense that gives us a knowledge of these things.
