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Graphic

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means relating to visual art, or described in vivid detail
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Stage 1 of 2
graphikos
Greek · ancient
"relating to writing or drawing"
relating to writing or drawing, from graphein (to write)
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Stage 2 of 2
graphic
English · 1600s
"relating to visual art, or vividly descriptive"
settled as the word for anything vividly descriptive or visual
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