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    SYNESTHESIA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulatedplay

    Synonyms:

    synaesthesia; synesthesia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("synesthesia" is a kind of...):

    aesthesis; esthesis; sensation; sense datum; sense experience; sense impression (an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "synesthesia"):

    chromaesthesia; chromesthesia (a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations)

    Derivation:

    synesthetic (relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense)

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