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UK specialized also mainly US synesthesia /ˌsɪn.əsˈθiː.zi.ə/ /ˌsɪn.əsˈθiː.ʒə/

› a condition in which someone experiences things through their senses in an unusual way, for example by experiencing a colour as a sound, or a number as a position in space:

A person with synaesthesia may see, for example, the number 2 as a green number and the number 5 as a red number.

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(Definition of “synaesthesia” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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