Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
- n. A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.
- n. The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See synæsthesia.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of synaesthesia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
Examples
“The stimulation of one sense by another sense is called synesthesia, from the Greek syn (together) and aisthanesthai (perceive).”
“Your mileage may vary; please consult your doctor to see if synesthesia is right for you. bj Says:”
“They don't need me (beyond my participation in synesthesia research, as a subject).”
“I've come across the word synesthesia a few times this week but I'm not sure it covers it.”
The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete) | Tomorrow Museum
“If synesthesia is part of your normal state of consciousness, LSD and other psychedelics are likely to result in temporary loss of synesthesia.”
“Hi there, really enjoyed reading your blog, im really interested in synesthesia and find it incredibly intriguing.”
“Currently, synesthesia is something likely to be gotten wrong.”
“By presenting standardized procedures for testing and comparing subjects, this endeavor hopes to speed scientific progress in synesthesia research.”
“The condition of synesthesia is interesting in that there are lots of twisted sensory descriptions like "the horrible smell of purple" and "the ring of the telephone feeling like burlap.”
REVIEW: Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Haber and Strahan
“This powerful cross-sensory phenomenon is known as synesthesia.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘synesthesia’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Romanticism
Words to describe art of the Romantic Era
rebel, rebellious, angst, ambiguous, expression, expressionism, attitude, moody, bruisy, fantasy, dark, brooding and 91 more...
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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Realia from Everywhere
Culturally defined terms and expressions from the four corners of the world
fjord, mistral steppe, tornado, tsunami, polder, kiwi, koala, sequoia, Abominable Snowman, paprika, spaghetti, empanada and 299 more...
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SCIE - neurology
abducens.....draw..., ablation.....carr..., acetylcholine......., adrenalin.....nea..., afferent.....to c..., agnosia.....no kn..., alar.....wing-like, alexia.....no words, alveus.....canal, amacrine.....no l..., ambidextrous........, ambiguus.....doub... and 701 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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Sci-tech
cicatrix, senescence, varicose, gestalt, glossolalia, synesthesia, hypolactasia, hemoglobin, ametabolic, eutrophic, eutrophication, cryptid and 35 more...
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disorder (psychological)
various psychological disorders, imbalances. supposed reasons for the mentally insane. crazy talk yo.
loosely connected to traits (bad)
( randomness, descriptive, psycho...crazy, schizophrenia, narcissism, obsessive compulsion, anxiety, attention deficit, depression, bipolar, mania, synesthesia, psychosis, autism and 12 more...
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Q's words
sublimation, crepuscular, synesthesia, nave, murmuration, reve, reave, twain, asunder
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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sick
"Sick" is probably not the right word, but this is where I put diseases, problems and abnormalities until I find a better way to sort them.
atavism, pareidolia, apophenia, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, dysthymia, euthymia, synesthesia, Stendhal syndrome, cryptomnesia, analgesia and 356 more...
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Uncle John’s Interesting Words
Words I find interesting.
abecedarius, acomoclitic, aperçu, apophenia, aspic, bêtise, bhang, callipygian, calque, carking, cataphract, ceruminous and 97 more...
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wordhoard
dilatory, ataraxia, hermit, cabana, hut, dome, vestigial, porcine, crapulous, usufruct, curmudgeon, bombastic and 229 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for synesthesia.
glasspetalsmoke This test will tell you if you have synesthesia. It is called The Synesthesia Battery. http://synesthete.org/ Feb 17, 2013
glasspetalsmoke "I Have Synesthesia: I'm Not a Freak, I'm a Synesthete." is a Facebook page for for folks with synesthesia. Log into Facebook and search for the page to join. Feb 17, 2013
glasspetalsmoke Julian is 11-years-old and has emotionally remediated synesthesia. Get inside his olfactory mind to get the picture. http://glasspetalsmoke.blogspot.com/2012/12/inside-olfactory-mind-of-boy-named.html Feb 17, 2013
glasspetalsmoke Jaime Smith interviewed by Psychology Today's Maureen Seaberg in "Tasting the Universe: Synesthesia from the Inside Out". P.S. Both of them have synesthesia. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/tasting-the-universe/201302/the-synesthetic-sommelier Feb 17, 2013
glasspetalsmoke Jaime Smith is a sommelier with synesthesia. Look inside his olfactory mind. http://glasspetalsmoke.blogspot.com/2012/09/inside-olfactory-mind-of-sommelier.html Feb 17, 2013
sionnach Younger sibling, Cynthia, to Ana, or Anaesthesia, sleepy pretender to the Romanoff throne. Apr 28, 2008
chained_bear see also synaesthesia. Oct 18, 2007