单词 | synesthesia |
释义 | synesthesia (once / 422119 pages) n Synesthesia is a condition that happens when a sense, such as sight, triggers another sense, like smell, at the same time. For someone with synesthesia, each letter of the alphabet might have a different odor. Cool! Synesthesia happens when someone’s senses are blended. The word synesthesia comes from the Greek syn for “together” and the root aisthe for “to feel.” People with synesthesia often don’t realize at first that they have it — they think everyone sees the number 8 as red, for example! The writer Vladimir Nabokov writes about having synesthesia in his memoir Speak, Memory. Synesthesia is another way of perceiving the world, but it’s not a disease. WORD FAMILYsynesthesia: synesthesias+/synesthetic: synesthesia USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s less a movie of aesthetics than of synesthesia, transmitting an unbearable burden of inner coldness and emptiness by means of warmhearted wonder. The New Yorker(Nov 23, 2016) Now, if only it came with the full-body, vibrating "synesthesia suit" prototype that the Rez team showed fans last year. The Verge(Aug 31, 2016) If asked, however, Scally and Legrand might agree synesthesia — the stimulation of multiple senses at the same time — is their endgame. Seattle Times(Apr 29, 2016) n a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated Syn|Hypo|Hyper synaesthesia chromaesthesia, chromesthesia a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations colored audition, colored hearinga form of chromesthesia in which experiences of color accompany auditory stimuli aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation |
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