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  • adjective of a person experiencing synaesthesia; describing a synaesthete.
  • adjective Pertaining to synaesthesia.

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  • adjective relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense

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Examples

  • Sound splashes across my field of vision in a synaesthetic wash.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • It's more than just a gig documentary, with crowd's-eye views and rural interludes to leaven the synaesthetic mayhem.

    This week's new film events 2012

  • The synaesthetic effect of the original injection seemed to have worn off.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • Buzzing with the synaesthetic beauty of so-called shoegaze forebears, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (pictured above) create swirling anthems that function just fine as daydreams.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • But can such synaesthetic correspondences be demonstrated in normal individuals for simple stimuli, such as brightness, size, colour, motion etc.

    Neurologica Blog - Are We All Synesthetes? William Harryman 2009

  • And his prose is visually evocative in a remarkable way that goes beyond content to style; the demented eccentricities of his language seem to have powerful synaesthetic implications, and to strongly suggest certain qualities of visual distortion.

    Archive 2009-07-12 2009

  • It does wonders to the general countenance, I think: case in point, we returned home not long ago to find the floor coated with the dust of construction detritus, and in the mood I was in, considered it almost as good as snow, a synaesthetic layering of scenariae which led this little brain of mine in a fourth-gear race to the nearest Jarry to share with you.

    The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2007

  • As a synaesthetic myself, I can tell you that in listening to people talking right in front of me, each of their words evokes a sensory impact, but the one thing I've always enjoyed is when someone finishes a sentence, the totality of all of those words as individual sensory creators creates a completely different finish when they are put together as a whole.

    And then there's the way Sarah Palin keeps saying "also," also. Ann Althouse 2008

  • As a synaesthetic myself, I can tell you that in listening to people talking right in front of me, each of their words evokes a sensory impact, but the one thing I've always enjoyed is when someone finishes a sentence, the totality of all of those words as individual sensory creators creates a completely different finish when they are put together as a whole.

    And then there's the way Sarah Palin keeps saying "also," also. Ann Althouse 2008

  • De Man famously associates this passage's theme of synaesthetic totalization with metaphor, and then argues that the passage ultimately deconstructs its own aesthetic vision by exposing the vision's reliance on, or exposure to, a contingency that de Man associates with metonymy:

    Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

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