Fwd from Kain: "A thought before I away to bed"

Visceral feelings are feelings that you feel very deeply and find it difficult to control or ignore, and that are not the result of thought. Adjective usu ADJ n literary

• Synonym 
  instinctive

• I never overcame a visceral antipathy for the monarchy.
• ...the sheer visceral joy of being alive.

A GUT FEELING....

WHAT IS RELATED TO (in an opposite kind of way)

• Eviscerates 3rd person present;   eviscerating present participle;   eviscerated past tense,past participle

• To eviscerate a person or animal means to remove their internal organs, such as their heart, lungs, and stomach. Verb formal
  • ...strangling and eviscerating rabbits for the pot. V n

AND CONSIDER

In the Australian sense, to be 'gutted' is to lose the sheer visceral joy of being alive.

Maybe our language is not so archaic and proverbial after all, if 'gutted' and 'eviscerated' are just two ways of expressing the same idea.

Goodnight

K