Synesthesia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of synaesthesia. US, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "[…] R. H. Gault's case of synesthesia in a deaf and blind girl, who could distinguish colors by the sense of smell, […]"

  2. 2
    a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated wordnet

Example

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"[…] R. H. Gault's case of synesthesia in a deaf and blind girl, who could distinguish colors by the sense of smell, […]"

Etymology

From syn- + -esthesia.

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