SYNESTHESIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does synesthesia mean? • SYNESTHESIA (noun)
The noun SYNESTHESIA has 1 sense:
1. a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
Familiarity information: SYNESTHESIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SYNESTHESIA (noun)
Meaning:
A sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
synaesthesia; synesthesia
Hypernyms ("synesthesia" is a kind of...):
aesthesis; esthesis; sensation; sense datum; sense experience; sense impression (an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "synesthesia"):
chromaesthesia; chromesthesia (a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations)
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