synaesthesia

synaesthesia
n.
a condition in which a secondary subjective sensation (often colour) is experienced at the same time as the sensory response normally evoked by the stimulus. For example, the sound of the word ‘cat’ might evoke the colour purple.

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  • synaesthesia — synaesthesia, synaesthetic chiefly Brit var of SYNESTHESIA, SYNESTHETIC …   Medical dictionary

  • synaesthesia — (n.) also synesthesia, sensation in one part of the body produced by stimulus in another, 1881, in some cases via French, from Mod.L., from Gk. syn together + stem aisthe to feel, perceive. Also psychologically, of the senses (colors having an… …   Etymology dictionary

  • synaesthesia — UK [ˌsɪnɪsˈθiːzɪə] / US [ˌsɪnəsθɪʒə] or synesthesia UK / US noun [uncountable] medical a condition in which two or more of the five senses that most people experience separately are mixed so that, for example, a person may see colour when they… …   English dictionary

  • synaesthesia — [sin΄is thē′zhə, sin΄is thē′zhē ə, sin΄is thē′zē ə] n. alt. sp. of SYNESTHESIA synaesthetic [sin΄isthet′ik] adj …   English World dictionary

  • synaesthesia —    Also known as synesthesia, synaesthetic hallucination, synaesthetic experience, reflex false perception, secondary sensation, and secondary sense perceptions (German: sekundären Sinnesempfindungen). The term synaesthesia comes from the Greek… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • synaesthesia — noun /ˌsɪnɛsˈθiːʒə/ a) A physiological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation. For example, reading the letter r may trigger the visual sensation of the colour purple in the mind or… …   Wiktionary

  • Synaesthesia (disambiguation) — Synesthesia (also, synaesthesia) is a perceptual experience in which a stimulus in one modality gives rise to an experience in different sensory modality.Synesthesia may also refer to:*Synæsthesia, an industrial music band. *Synesthesia, an album …   Wikipedia

  • synaesthesia — chiefly British variant of synesthesia …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • synaesthesia — synaesthetic /sin is thet ik/, adj. /sin is thee zheuh, zhee euh, zee euh/, n. synesthesia. * * * …   Universalium

  • synaesthesia — Confusion between the senses, as when musical notes are experienced as coloured …   Philosophy dictionary

  • synaesthesia — n. process in which one type of sensation produces a secondary subjective sensation (as when one sees a particular color in response to certain music) …   English contemporary dictionary

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