What is "synaesthesia"

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 *au- "to perceive" (see audience) + abstract noun ending -ia. Also psychologically, of the senses (colors that seem to the perceiver to having odor, etc.), from 1891. Related: Synaesthetic (adj.).

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, unlike, perception that is not experienced at the same time. 3 A literary or artistic device whereby one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another.

n. a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated [syn: synesthesia]

Synæsthesia was a Canadian ambient band in the 1990s formed by industrial musicians Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber as a side project of their main band Front Line Assembly. Keyboard magazine writes: "Synæsthesia explores dark tribal ambient sounds, composers have a flair for cinematic electronica, and favor epic pieces that unfold slowly."

Due to contractual entanglements Leeb and Fulber were originally not able to admit they were behind the music. Instead credits went to " R. Deckard", an allusion to the main character in the film Blade Runner. The identity of the musicians was revealed with the release of the third album, Ephemeral, crediting Leeb with the music and Fulber with programming.

Synæsthesia uses samples from a number of musicians and from the film Fire in the Sky.

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:

Synaesthesia is a rhetorical device or figure of speech where one sense is described in terms of another. This may often take the form of a simile. One can distinguish the literary joining of terms derived from the vocabularies of sensory domains from synaesthesia as a neuropsychological phenomenon.