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synaesthesia
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syn·aes·the·sia  (sns-thzh)
n.
Variant of synesthesia.

synaesthesia US, synesthesia [ˌsɪniːsˈθiːzɪə]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) Physiol a sensation experienced in a part of the body other than the part stimulated
2. (Psychology) Psychol the subjective sensation of a sense other than the one being stimulated. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of colour
[from New Latin, from syn- + -esthesia, from Greek aisthēsis sensation]
synaesthetic  US, synesthetic [ˌsɪniːsˈθɛtɪk] adj

synesthesia, synaesthesia
Medicine. a secondary sensation accompanying an actual perception, as the perceiving of sound as a color or the sensation of being touched in a place at some distance from the actual place of touching. Cf. chromesthesia.synesthetic, synaesthetic, adj.
See also: Perception
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.synaesthesia - a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression - an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of touch"
chromaesthesia, chromesthesia - a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations
Translations
synaesthesia synesthesia (US) [ˌsɪnəsˈθiːzɪə] Nsinestesia f
synaesthesia, (US) synesthesia
n no plSynästhesie f


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At the time, it was deemed enormously fashionable to have synaesthesia, and Scriabin once bitched about another composer's claims to be a synaesthete to the psychologist Charles Myers.
David Hockney is known to be a synaesthete, as he showed when he painted opera in New York.
16) Patricia Duffy, Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synaesthetes Color Their Worlds, Henry Holt & Company, 2001, 64.
 
 
 
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