rare. [f. VISUAL a. + -ITY: app. used by Carlyle only. Cf. late L. vīsuālitas.]
1. The state or quality of being visual or visible to the mind; mental visibility.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, iii. (1904), 92. Every compartment of it is worked-out, with intense earnestness, into truth, into clear visuality. Ibid. (1858), Fredk. Gt., X. viii. II. 685. The image he has of his Burial, we perceive, is of perfect visuality, equal to what a Defoe could do in imagining.
2. With a and pl. A mental picture or vision.
1841. Carlyle, Misc. Ess. (1857), IV. 242. We must … catch a few more visualities. Ibid. (1845), Cromwell, I. 154. We have a pleasant visuality of an old summer afternoon ‘in the Queen’s Court’ two hundred years ago.
