synesthesia
/ˌsɪnəsˈθiʒə/
noun
- A condition in which one type of stimulation (like hearing a sound) automatically triggers another sense (like seeing a color).
- The artist's synesthesia inspired her to paint music as colorful swirls.
- Her synesthesia makes her taste shapes when she eats certain foods.
- People with synesthesia might see the number five as always being red.
- A literary or artistic technique that mixes different senses in description, such as describing a sound as 'bright' or a color as 'loud'.
- The director employed synesthesia in the film by making the audience 'hear' colors through sound effects.
- In the novel, synesthesia helps the reader feel the character's overwhelming emotions.
- The poet used synesthesia to describe the sunset as a 'silent trumpet of gold.'