a sensation, vision or hallucination of light or colour caused by stimulus of a sense other than vision
photism in American English
(ˈfoutɪzəm)
noun
Psychology
a form of synesthesia in which a visual sensation, as of color or form, is produced by the sense of touch, hearing, etc
Word origin
[1890–95; ‹ Gk phōtismós illumination, equiv. to phōt(ízein) to give light + -ismos-ism]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bootstrap, cholesterol, historicism, neoclassicism, phoneme-ism is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nounsfrom verbs (baptism). On this model, -ism is used as a productive suffix in the formation of nouns denoting action or practice,state or condition, principles, doctrines, a usage or characteristic, devotion oradherence, etc. (criticism; barbarism; Darwinism; despotism; plagiarism; realism; witticism; intellectualism)
Examples of 'photism' in a sentence
photism
Experiments were tailored for each synesthete according to her unique photism.
Amit ePerry, Avishai eHenik 2013, 'The emotional valence of a conflict: Implications from synesthesia', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00978/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)