SYNESTHESIA

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 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)

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

synesthetic (relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense)