SYNESTHETIC METAPHOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does synesthetic metaphor mean? 

• SYNESTHETIC METAPHOR (noun)
  The noun SYNESTHETIC METAPHOR has 1 sense:

1. a metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities

  Familiarity information: SYNESTHETIC METAPHOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNESTHETIC METAPHOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("synesthetic metaphor" is a kind of...):

metaphor (a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity)