A physiological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation. For example, reading the letter 'r' may trigger the visual sensation of the colour purple in the mind or the eye of the synaesthete (grapheme → colour synaesthesia); or, more rarely, for example, the phoneme /l/ may elicit the taste of mince (lexical → gustatory synaesthesia)
Into her darkness, a churning synaesthesia, where her pain was the taste of old iron, scent of melon, wings of a moth brushing her cheek.
A literary device whereby one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another
One feeling or perception described with words usually used for a totally different or opposite feeling or perception Ex: "The sky smelled blue " "The soft hum of fog "
a brain disorder characterized by a cross-referencing of senses: for example, sounds might be "seen" and colors might be "heard "
{i} process in which one type of sensation produces a secondary subjective sensation (as when one sees a particular color in response to certain music)
A physiological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation. For example, reading the letter r may trigger the visual sensation of the colour purple in the mind or the eye of the synaesthete (grapheme → colour synaesthesia); or, more rarely, for example, the phoneme /l/ may elicit the taste of mince (lexical → gustatory synaesthesia)