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Adjective for a person who enjoys taking care of their appearance
One is visual, the other is an attitude. You've provided both in your question—but you can't if you want a specific answer. They mean different things. Also, vain, self-conscious, and happy all mean different things when it comes to attitude. So even if you narrow it down to that (as opposed to appearance), your question is still too broad.
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Readable vs legible - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Easy to understand is non-metaphorical, but accessible is another metaphorical usage that doesn't create quite the same unease over the juxtaposition between visual and textual information.
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sense verbs - a word like "visual", "auditory", except for touch ...
a word like "visual", "auditory", except for touch Ask Question Asked 14 years, 11 months ago Modified 8 years, 6 months ago
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Graphic is also a noun, as in a visual graphic, whereas graphical is only an adjective. However, there are phrases where graphic is conventionally used, other phrases where graphical is the norm. Therefore, it's important to choose the correct word for a given situation. For example: graphic arts, graphic equalizer, graphic novel [s], graphic ...
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Single name to cover "drawing", "painting", "sketching" etc
The fine or applied visual arts and associated techniques involving the application of lines and strokes to a two-dimensional surface. The fine or applied visual arts and associated techniques in which images are produced from blocks, plates, or type, as in engraving and lithography.
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word choice - "Glaringly obvious" vs. "blaringly obvious" - English ...
With this interpretation glaringly would be the adverb of choice for visual events while blaringly would be the adverb of choice for audible events. I feel that both these words, glaring and blaring, have an inability-to-ignore connotation, but that is tangential.
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word choice - "Seem", "appear", "look" — how to differentiate ...
There is a semantic difference between look/appear and seem: One should use look or appear when describing an observable condition - e.g.: Rhonda looks sad - the example implies that there is some observable state or behavior that supports the statement (Rhonda may have tears rolling down her cheeks, for example). One should use seem to describe a perceived condition - e.g.: Rhonda seems sad ...
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capitalization - Capitalisation (or not?!) of 'von' and 'de' at start ...
Capital letters are the major visual clue for the start of a new sentence. However, to demonstrate that this is a matter of opinion, I attempted to find guidance.
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Origin of "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I ...
The first record that I can find is from "Science and Civilisation in China" 中國科學技術史 - Page iii books.google.co.uk › books by Joseph Needham · 1954 · ‎Snippet view Found inside – Page iii ... I hear , and I forget . I see , and I remember . I do , and I understand . Ten thousand words are not worth one seeing . Chinese proverb. In fairness, this seems to be an anglicised ...
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What's the origin of the idiom "to be left holding the bag"?
Perhaps the visual would be of someone holding an open bag with hopes that something would fill it, so that they could move on to the next order of business. The progressively impatient desire for a response whether in favor or against, with the endgame of bringing closure to the matter.