| 单词 | colour hearing |
| 释义 | > as lemmascolour hearing colour hearing n. [after German Farbenhören (1881 or earlier); compare slightly later coloured hearing n. at coloured adj. and n. Compounds; compare also coloured audition n. at coloured adj. and n. Compounds and the discussion at that lemma] = coloured hearing n. at coloured adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1881 Cincinnati Lancet & Clinic 5 Nov. 430/2 Color Hearing.—He who has never heard the expression ‘color hearing’, will hardly find his curiosity satisfied, if he look for it in a dictionary, for it is a newly formed word. 1881 London Med. Rec. 15 Dec. 493/2 Not knowing of another case of colour-hearing besides himself and his brother, whose perception of colours coincided in substance with his own, this peculiar talent would have been looked upon as unique. 1912 School Rev. 20 368 A curious example of this is seen in the phenomenon known to psychologists as pseudochromaesthesia or ‘color-hearing’. 1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 207 We should mention, along with firecrackers, that color hearing is a form of synesthesia that manifests itself by the appearance in the mind of colors or shades whenever certain sounds are heard. < as lemmas |
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