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chromesthesia

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

Sound-to-color synaesthesia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Topics: human-sciences, medicine, neurology, neuroscience, psychology, sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chromaesthesia

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: synesthesia, synaesthesia

Narrower terms: colored hearing, colored audition

History

Etymology

From chrom- + -esthesia.