Synesthesia
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| + | '''Synesthesia''' (also spelled '''synæsthesia''' or '''synaesthesia''', plural '''synesthesiae''' or '''synaesthesiae''')—from the Ancient Greek {{polytonic|[[wikt:σύν|σύν]]}} (syn), meaning "with," and {{polytonic|[[wikt:αἴσθησις|αἴσθησις]]}} (aisthēsis), meaning "[[sensation]]"'—is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In one common form of synesthesia, known as [[grapheme-color synesthesia|grapheme → color synesthesia]], [[letter]]s or [[numeral|numbers]] are perceived as inherently colored, while in [[ordinal linguistic personification]], numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or [[number form]] synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a three-dimensional view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise). | ||
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Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae)—from the Ancient Greek Template:Polytonic (syn), meaning "with," and Template:Polytonic (aisthēsis), meaning "sensation"'—is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a three-dimensional view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).
