Definition of "nonvisual"

When I was a child, it was a very nonvisual universe, and people with a sense of the visual were not respected."

2001 May 11, Andrew Lawler, “VISUALIZING SCIENCE: New Imaging Tools Put the Art Back Into Science”, in Science‎, volume 292, number 5519, pages 1044–1047

Involuntary shifts of spatial attention caused by the appearance of nonvisual stimuli do seem to produce similar enhancements of neural responses to visual stimuli within visual cortex (19, 20 ), but the details of how this occurs remain to be discovered.

2001 June 8, John J. McDonald et al., “Multisensory Integration and Crossmodal Attention Effects in the Human Brain”, in Science‎, volume 292, number 5523

"An artist, whether visual or nonvisual, expresses that which is closest to him or her," he says.

2002 March 29, Michael Marsh, “Chi Lives: the art of the Wobbly”, in Chicago Reader‎