Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In psychology, a reproduced sensation of color regularly accompanying the arousal of sensation in certain other sense departments, especially in that of hearing: the commonest form of synæsthesia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Psycol.) A luminous image or appearance of a hallucinatory character.
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- noun psychology A luminous appearance, image or subjective perception of a
hallucinatory nature. - noun The color that a
synesthete may report seeing in association with a particular letter or number
Etymologies
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From the stem of Ancient Greek φῶς ("light") + -ism.
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