How to Use synesthesia in a Sentence

synesthesia

noun
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  • This opens the door to the idea that, to some extent, synesthesia can be learned.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Strobes and a mirror ball added a touch of synesthesia.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
  • This melding of the senses, a kind of synesthesia, occurs in books, too.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2018
  • In other types of synesthesia, sounds might be linked to colors or words with tastes.
    — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • But not enough of it teases out the synesthesia of a night in a restaurant: the adrenaline, the prep, the community, the taste.
    — Longreads, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That’s probably what gives you synesthesia, the ability to see a flavor or feel a sound.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 May 2018
  • This mash-up of senses is known as synesthesia and has baffled scientists for decades.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The term dates back to the autism community in the 1990s, though it’s now applied to all sorts of mental differences — from ADHD to synesthesia.
    — Shayla Love, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The 27-year-old painter and Lee’s Summit native has a form of synesthesia, a cross-wiring of the brain where a stimulus in one sense provokes a response in another.
    — David Frese, kansascity, 12 Apr. 2018
  • These families all had the same common type of synesthesia that couples sounds with colors.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2018
  • But her mother, Amanda Schaefer, says signs of Pohlmann’s synesthesia emerged early on.
    — Maureen Seaberg, Glamour, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Not everyone with mirror-touch synesthesia has been able to harness it in such a positive way.
    — Natalie Angley, CNN, 16 June 2017
  • After letting synesthesia's existence settle in for a minute or two, Nars changes his mind.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 23 July 2019
  • It was inspired by the condition synesthesia, which Kandinsky had.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 11 June 2019
  • People with the most common type, grapheme-color synesthesia, see letters as colors.
    — Shanley Pierce, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The condition synesthesia is linked to the occipital lobe.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2022
  • His thoughtful ideas and adept connection to emotions and sounds may have something to do with his synesthesia, the ability to connect music and color.
    — Natalie Maher, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2018
  • People have been talking about possible links between synesthesia and the toys synesthetes used as children since Miss C’s time, but nobody has ever been able to find proof of it.
    — Eugene Palomado, National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2016
  • And the third, one of the most common and well-studied forms, is grapheme-color synesthesia, in which numbers and letters are associated with certain colors.
    — Cari Romm, The Cut, 10 May 2018
  • But the Fisher-Price alphabet magnets are exhibit A for the argument that learning and synesthesia are linked.
    — Eugene Palomado, National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2016
  • Dylan Brady and Laura Les don’t disappoint, pushing the synesthesia of their hyperpop sound to new extremes.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The last time synesthesia made big cultural waves came a hundred years ago, when Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky courted sight from hearing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Across all 14 essays, nearly each page contains at least one gemlike moment of visual-verbal synesthesia.
    — Kate Bolick, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
  • After all, translating one sense into another is what synesthesia is, in a nutshell.
    — Vanessa Potter, CNN, 10 Oct. 2017
  • This invented landscape, like the bottle, is also gray—a reality created, in part, by the pop star’s innate synesthesia.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 20 June 2023
  • Even people with the same type of synesthesia can have totally different internal landscapes.
    — David Frese, kansascity, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The authors suggest that grapheme-color synesthesia, for instance, might represent a kind of vivid memory of colored alphabet blocks or fridge magnets.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2015
  • Calendar synesthesia, seen in 1 to 2 percent of the population, may involve the neural circuitry the authors describe.
    — Scientific American, 1 June 2020
  • Our hope was that the DNA data might point to shared biological processes as candidates for involvement in synesthesia.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
  • But the driving force of the movie is synesthesia, a condition when your brain processes input through unrelated senses, like connecting letters with taste or someone’s name with a color.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024

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