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Meaning of "synaesthetic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SYNAESTHETIC

ˌsɪniːsˈθɛtɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SYNAESTHETIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Synaesthetic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SYNAESTHETIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes. Difficulties have been recognized in adequately defining synesthesia: many different phenomena have been included in the term synesthesia, and in many cases the terminology seems to be inaccurate. A more accurate term may be ideasthesia. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space, or may appear as a three-dimensional map. Only a fraction of types of synesthesia have been evaluated by scientific research. Awareness of synesthetic perceptions varies from person to person. Although synesthesia was the topic of intensive scientific investigation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was largely abandoned by scientific research in the mid-20th century.

Definition of synaesthetic in the English dictionary

The definition of synaesthetic in the dictionary is of or relating to a sensation experienced in a part of the body other than the part stimulated. Other definition of synaesthetic is of or relating to the subjective sensation of a sense other than the one being stimulated. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of colour.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SYNAESTHETIC

aesthetic · anaesthetic · anesthetic · cenesthetic · coenesthetic · esthetic · heresthetic · hyperaesthetic · hyperesthetic · paraesthetic · paresthetic · pathetic · prosthetic · somaesthetic · sympathetic · synesthetic · synthetic · telesthetic · unaesthetic · unesthetic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SYNAESTHETIC

synadelphite · synaeresis · synaesthesia · synagogal · synagogical · synagogue · synalepha · synallagmatic · synaloepha · synandria · synandrium · synandrous · synangium · synanon · synantherous · synantheses · synanthesis · synanthetic · synanthic · synanthous

WORDS THAT END LIKE SYNAESTHETIC

antipathetic · antithetic · athletic · bathetic · biosynthetic · chemosynthetic · diarrhetic · empathetic · general anaesthetic · hypothetic · kinaesthetic · kinesthetic · local anaesthetic · nomothetic · parasympathetic · photosynthetic · polysynthetic · prophetic · semisynthetic · thetic · unsympathetic

Synonyms and antonyms of synaesthetic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «synaesthetic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SYNAESTHETIC

Find out the translation of synaesthetic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of synaesthetic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «synaesthetic» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

通感
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

sinestésica
570 millions of speakers
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English

synaesthetic
510 millions of speakers
hi

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synaesthetic
380 millions of speakers
ar

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synaesthetic
280 millions of speakers
ru

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синестетический
278 millions of speakers
pt

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sinestésica
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

synaesthetic
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

synesthésique
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Synaestetik
190 millions of speakers
de

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synästhetische
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

共感覚
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

synaesthetic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Synaesthetic
85 millions of speakers
vi

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synaesthetic
80 millions of speakers
ta

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synaesthetic
75 millions of speakers
mr

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प्रणयवैज्ञानिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

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synaesthetic
70 millions of speakers
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sinestetica
65 millions of speakers
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synestetyczne
50 millions of speakers
uk

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синестетичний
40 millions of speakers
ro

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sinestezic
30 millions of speakers
el

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συναισθησιακή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

synesthetisch
14 millions of speakers
sv

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synaesthetic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

synestesiske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of synaesthetic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SYNAESTHETIC»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about synaesthetic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYNAESTHETIC»

Discover the use of synaesthetic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to synaesthetic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Labyrinthine Depictions and Tempting Colors: The ...
CHAPTER 3 SYNAESTHETIC METHODLOGIES Through the interaction of symbols, Fuller created a new art form through her synaesthetic artistic experiments. Her combination of color, light, movement, and music appealed to the senses ...
Caroline J. Kappel, 2007
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The Oxford Companion to Consciousness
Unlike extra perceptions that can be temporarily experienced under the inXuence of certain drugs (LSD) or under hypnotic suggestion, for people with true, developmental synaesthesia, their synaesthetic experiences have coloured their  ...
Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken, 2009
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An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders
The results demonstrated that it is the synaesthete's interpretation of a stimulus rather than its physical properties which predict the synaesthetic experience and hence task performance. Together, these results suggest that the synaesthetic ...
David Groome, Department of Psychology David Groome, 2013
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Cognitive neuroscience perspective on synaesthesia
The question of whether synaesthetic experiences are automatic has typically been investigated using a synaesthetic variant of the Stroop task (Wollen and Ruggiero, 1983), in which participants are asked to name the actual colour of a visual ...
J. B. Mattingley, J. Ward, 2006
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Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London 1950–1974
Synaesthetic films consisted of a range of images and distortion-interference effects projected onto the screen, edited together as a continuous movie giving the impression of objects metamorphosing into other objects. The production of ...
Simon Rycroft, 2012
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Multisensory Development
Individuals with coloured hearing are significantly slower on inconsistent trials than on consistent trials, a pattern suggesting that the synaesthetic colour elicited by the tone occurs automatically and interferes with, or slows down, the percep—  ...
Andrew J. Bremner, David J. Lewkowicz, Charles Spence, 2012
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Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th ...
Synaesthesia is generally “one-way”; that is, for example, for a given synaesthete , tastes may produce synaesthetic sounds, but sounds will not produce synaesthetic tastes. However, there have been a few rare cases of synaesthetes who ...
Paul Mc Kevitt, Seán Ó Nualláin, Conn Mulvihill, 2002
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Learning to Teach Art & Design in the Secondary School: A ...
SYNAESTHESIA Synaesthetic approaches are concerned with the correspondence between different forms of sensory experience. the way that sights. sounds. surfaces. tastes and smells relate. or seem to relate, to one another. Synaesthetic ...
Nicholas Addison, Lesley Burgess, 2000
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Contextualized Practices in Arts Education: An International ...
The visual/auditory as experience in a poem like this reaches beyond the one-to- one conflation of the onomatopoeic word-sound. Regarding your point about the ideological and political origins of the observation and use of the synaesthetic ...
Chee-Hoo Lum, 2013
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Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones
Synaesthetic metaphor should no longer be considered disinterested play because it can be employed to smuggle advantageous though previously unsanctioned plots into hostile territory. In many ways this notion resembles two children in a ...
Roger Beebe, Jason Middleton, 2007

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYNAESTHETIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term synaesthetic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Synaesthetic Cyborg Neil Harbisson Comments on the Sound of …
The world was abuzz with talk of seemingly magical color changing dress that was causing marriages to fall apart, friendships to be shattered, and consumed ... «h+ Magazine, Feb 15»
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'Art or Sound' is the Prada Foundation's new synaesthetic Venice show
'Art or Sound' is the Prada Foundation's new synaesthetic Venice show. Art / 6 Jun 2014 /. By Alice Pheiffer. The Prada Foundation's latest exhibition 'Art or ... «wallpaper.com, Jun 14»
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Trendspotter: synaesthetic marketing
Strictly speaking, synaesthesia is a neurological condition: one that causes the sensory and cognitive world to blur, so that colours are also heard as sounds or ... «The National, Nov 12»
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Different types of synaesthetic experiences involve different brain …
In synaesthesia, the information entering one sensory system gives rise to sensations in another sensory modality. Letters can evoke colours, for example, and ... «ScienceBlogs, May 10»
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A window into the synaesthetic mind
People with grapheme-colour synaesthesia associate letters and numbers with particular colours. Try a selection of tests that distinguish people with this ... «New Scientist, Dec 09»
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Do we all have some synaesthetic ability?
So, you think you're not synaesthetic. You might have to think again. New research shows that many people have traces of the condition without realising it. «New Scientist, Sep 08»
REFERENCE
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