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synæsthetic, a. (n.)|sɪnɪsˈθɛtɪk| Also synesthetic. 1. [f. synæsthesia, after anæsthetic.] Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting synæsthesia. Also absol. or as n., a synæsthetic person. So synæsˈthetically adv.
1910Mind XIX. 296 Sense-experiences synaesthetically aroused. 1920R. H. Wheeler Synaesthesia of Blind Subject 54 Synaesthetic phenomena in the field of imagery..reveal the same characteristics as do the same phenomena in the field of perception. 1925Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XXXVI. 530 The process of perceiving a synaesthetically colored month as an emotion,—by which we mean that the emotional response is represented in the various qualities of the colored imagery. 1935Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXV. 37 Every case of synaesthesia..consists essentially of a parallel arrangement of two gradient series. They may be series of pitches, intensities..or anything else in keeping with the interests..of the synaesthetic. 1936W. B. Stanford Gr. Metaphor 47 We shall call..transferences from the sphere of one sense to that of another synaesthetic or intersensal metaphor. Ibid. 61 Writers like Poe..and..Ayala affect the same kinds of synaesthetic phrases. Edith Sitwell has ‘creaking light’ and ‘dawn{ddd}whining’. 1942Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. XXVI. 213 Such results emphasize the continuity between synesthetic phenomena and more general phenomena of language and thinking. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xxiii. 320 It is obvious that such ‘synaesthetic’ metaphors greatly facilitate the sharing by the reader of the teller's vision. 1951S. D. Ullmann Princ. Semantics iv. 219 Gombocz developed these distinctions..redefining the essence of synaesthetic transfer which, contrary to Wundt and Roudet, he included among cases of affective sense-similarity. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 306 On investigation, a group of phonetic-symbolism, synesthetic, and semantic-differential studies was shown to have produced two groups of semantic qualities which were internally coherent and mutually exclusive. 1979C. Priest Infinite Summer 39, I was still affected by the enemy's synaesthetic gas I had inhaled. My perception was disturbed. 2. [f. synæsthesis, after æsthetic.] Of or pertaining to synæsthesis.
1922C. K. Ogden et al. Foundations of Aesthetics 91 What we have called the synaesthetic character of the experience. |