Word nerds rejoice! There is a new visual “thinkmap” for those searching for the right word, at the right moment. The Visual Thesaurus provides right brain thinkers, or those that find picture and visual thinking more intuitive and productive, with an illustration of words grouped together according to similarity of meaning.

Here is an example:

The diagram works by clustering words with similar meanings in an interconnected web. A central word is used as the foundation with words closest in meaning surrounding the central word. As the web moves outward, the words become less similar in meaning to the central word, providing a spatial allocation for word relationships. Auditory working memory mainly takes place in the confines of the brain, but the Visual Thesaurus illustrates that “memory web” in a profound and useful way.