synaesthesia
pronunciation
How to pronounce synaesthesia in British English:
UK [ˌsɪnəsˈθi:ziə]
How to pronounce synaesthesia in American English:
US [ˌsɪnɪsˈθiʒə]
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- Noun:
- a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
Word Origin
- synaesthesia (n.)
- 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.).
Example
- 1. This could well be proved through the scrutiny of the theoretical as well as practical history home and abroad , and further be verified by the psychological and linguistic characterisics of synaesthesia .
- 2. In view of its inner essence , synaesthesia embodies a philosophical quality , namely , a profound " true " perspective and an impulse to show solicitude to the universe and human life .
- 3. As to the children 's music education , use the synaesthesia can help to awake the mutual communication and influence of children 's sensory , improve the whole aesthetic reaction ability , and promote the development of diffusibility thinking and cultivation ofcomprehensive thinking .
- 4. From the lexicological angle , this paper examines into the phenomenon of synaesthesia word-formation , analyses the distribution , classification and characteristics of the synaesthesia word-formation , and analyses the specially abundent mechanism and the law of chinese synaesthesia word-formation .
- 5. The condition has even been given a name : synaesthesia .