synesthetic
Hearing colors, perhaps
Synesthetic describes the blending of senses—hearing colors, tasting shapes, seeing sounds.
The adjective applies both to people who experience synesthesia and to the sensory crossovers themselves: a synesthetic perception of music as ribbons of color.
The word also describes artistic techniques that evoke one sense through another: The poet's synesthetic imagery made readers taste the thunder.
Sound-to-color perception
- multisensoryInvolving several perception modes
- concurrentHappening at once
- inducerSomething that triggers
Bauhaus painting instructor
- chromaticRelating to color
- abstractCondensed version of text
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
- multimediaCombined content formats
Nabokov · immersive · audiovisual · painterly · creative · inspired
One with merged senses
- projectorLight-casting display device
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- involuntaryNot under conscious control
- automaticOperating without intervention
consistent · idiosyncratic · vivid · aura · phenomenal · subjective · qualia · introspection
Combining into uniformity
- fusionJoining into unity
- mergingBlending into one
- interminglingMutual mixing of elements
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
synthesis · intertwined · overlapping · mixing · poetic · evocative · imagery
Signal-transmitting brain cells
- cortexOrgan's external tissue
- synapseNerve signal crossing point
- parietalOf the skull wall
- hyperconnectivityExcessive digital interconnection
disinhibition · neuroimaging · fMRI · genetics · developmental · congenital · acquired · neuroplasticity
chromesthesia
Sound-to-color perception
- multisensoryInvolving several perception modes
- concurrentHappening at once
- inducerSomething that triggers
Kandinsky
Bauhaus painting instructor
- chromaticRelating to color
- abstractCondensed version of text
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
Nabokov · multimedia · immersive · audiovisual · painterly · creative · inspired
synesthete
One with merged senses
- projectorLight-casting display device
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- involuntaryNot under conscious control
automatic · consistent · idiosyncratic · vivid · aura · phenomenal · subjective · qualia · introspection · first-person
blending
Combining into uniformity
- fusionJoining into unity
- mergingBlending into one
- interminglingMutual mixing of elements
convergence · synthesis · intertwined · overlapping · mixing · poetic · evocative · imagery
neurons
Signal-transmitting brain cells
hyperconnectivity · disinhibition · neuroimaging · fMRI · genetics · developmental · congenital · acquired · neuroplasticity
synesthetictypical
Representative of a kind
normal · conventional · ordinary · standard · neurotypical
aesthetic, anesthetic, anesthesia, synesthesia, synaesthesia, synesthesias