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SYNESTHESIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
Synonyms:
synaesthesia; synesthesia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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)
Derivation:
synesthetic (relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense)
