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Noun:

  • A literary device whereby one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another.
  • A physiological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation. For example, reading the letter 'r' may trigger the visual sensation of the colour purple in the mind or the eye of the synaesthete (grapheme ? colour synaesthesia); or, more rarely, for example, the phoneme /l/ may elicit the taste of mince (lexical ? gustatory synaesthesia).

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