Visual means to do with seeing. Visual effects, a visual learner, visual memory.
About a third of the brain's cortex is given over to vision, far more than to any other sense, which is why visual information beats every other kind for grabbing attention. The idea that people divide into visual and other learners is popular and unsupported. Note the plural noun, visuals.
1adjectivevisualTo do with seeing.
“The museum uses visual aids like maps and photos to help children understand history.”
visual is a quality of sight.
Latin visualis means of sight, from videre, to see. Vision and visible come from the same seeing.
Proto-Indo-European
*weyd-
Latin
vīsuālis — of sight
French
visuel
Middle English
visual
English, today
visual
Built from
From Middle English visual, from French visuel, visual and directly from Latin vīsuālis (“of sight”), from vīsus + -ālis, from vidēre (“to see, perceive; look (at)”); see visage. by surface analysis, vīsus + -ual.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA