synaesthesia (redirected from synaesthetes)

syn·aes·the·sia  (sns-thzh)

n.

Variant of synesthesia.

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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

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synaesthesia - a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated synesthesia 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