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A sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
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synaesthesia
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Synaesthesia (sometimes spelled "Synesthesia") is a perceptual experience in which a stimulus in one modality gives rise to an experience in different sensory modality. Synaesthesia or Synaesthete may also refer to:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated [syn: synesthesia ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context neurology psychology English) A neurological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation. 2 The association of one sensory perception with, or description of it in terms of, another, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also synesthesia , "sensation in one part of the body produced by stimulus in another," 1881, in some cases via French, from Modern Latin, from Greek syn- "together" (see syn- ) + aisthe "to feel, perceive," related to aisthesis "feeling," from PIE root ...
Usage examples of synaesthesia.
His teams of technicians had, suddenly, resolved a last technical glitch: a tendency for the headbands to cause synaesthesia in their users, a muddling of the sensory inputs caused by cross talk between the brain's centers.
He was suffering from Synaesthesia, that rare condition in which perception receives messages from the objective world and relays these messages to the brain, but there in the brain the sensory perceptions are confused with one another.