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Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of synaesthesia English)
WordNet
n. a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated [syn: synaesthesia]
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Synesthesia is a studio album by Canadian hip hop musician Buck 65. It was originally released on Endemik Music in 2001 and then re-released with additional songs and music on WEA in 2002.
Synesthesia is a multi-arts group performance, produced by Electric Pear Productions, which takes place annually in New York City.
The show is assembled following the rules of the Surrealist Exquisite Corpse: Participants create their works in-sequence, with each artist allotted about two weeks production time. The first artist is presented a random seed (a fortune cookie) as an initial inspiration; subsequent artists are exposed only to the work of the artist immediately prior to themselves. All of these "hand-offs" are documented on video. When the final artist completes their piece, the collected work is presented live, in order, and incorporating the documentary footage.
Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia; from the Ancient Greek syn, "together", and aisthēsis, "sensation") is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report a lifelong history of such experiences are known as synesthetes.
In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme-color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may appear as a three-dimensional map (clockwise or counterclockwise). Synesthetic associations can occur in any combination and any number of senses or cognitive pathways.
Little is known about how synesthesia develops. It has been suggested that synesthesia develops during childhood when children are intensively engaged with abstract concepts for the first time. This hypothesis – referred to as semantic vacuum hypothesis – explains why the most common forms of synesthesia are grapheme-color, spatial sequence and number form. These are usually the first abstract concepts that educational systems require children to learn.
Only a fraction of types of synesthesia have been evaluated by scientific research. Awareness of synesthetic perceptions varies from person to person.
Difficulties have been recognized in adequately defining synesthesia: Many different phenomena have been included in the term synesthesia ("union of the senses"), and in many cases the terminology seems to be inaccurate. A more accurate term may be ideasthesia.
"Synesthesia" is a song and the debut single from Andrew McMahon's debut solo EP The Pop Underground, released on April 2, 2013 as a digital download and first physically available in the deluxe preorder package of The Pop Underground as a 7" picture disc. The single marks McMahon's first single release separated from his prior bands Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin, as well as his commissioned writing for Smash, and also his first single as an independent artist. The single is produced and mixed by Tony Hoffer and written by McMahon and Mark Williams.
Musically, the song is a new direction for McMahon, who embraced a more electronic, synthpop sound on The Pop Underground. Lyrically, the song documents various autobiographical aspects in McMahon's life at the time of the song's writing. An accompanying music video was directed by brother duo Hamilton and Cooper Karl in Claremont, California. It was released on McMahon's VEVO page on June 13, 2013.
Usage examples of "synesthesia".
Like Nabokov she had a tendency to synesthesia, a delight in easily overlooked trifles, a sense of wonder at the world.
The weight that held me to bed and floor seemed, by an extraordinary synesthesia, political and not physical.
That was fine with Jimmy, because a bit of synesthesia never went amiss.
One other thing it had done: opened the door to the reading of auras, the mental trick that takes perception of heat and odor and body language and through a kind of synesthesia creates the impression of color.
I exploded into total synesthesia, into an orgasm that blasted my eyes with color and my ears with sound, a total experience like nothing I had ever known before, claiming all of me, destroying me and re-creating me out of nothingness.
We may have to trick ourselves into surprise by giving ourselves assignments that require mixing the senses, or by seeking out literary examples of synesthesia to use as models.
The light strengthened, and at length, trembling with synesthesia, Tahquil stepped from the cave-mouth into the open air of a surreal landscape.
The microneural surgery should at least have reduced his terrifying sensory synesthesia.
Koans of synesthesia, to break apart the unity of the sense that bars the time sense.