How to Use synesthesia in a Sentence

synesthesia

noun

• This opens the door to the idea that, to some extent, synesthesia can be learned.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• In other types of synesthesia, sounds might be linked to colors or words with tastes.
  — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• This melding of the senses, a kind of synesthesia, occurs in books, too.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2018
• This mash-up of senses is known as synesthesia and has baffled scientists for decades.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
• That’s probably what gives you synesthesia, the ability to see a flavor or feel a sound.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 May 2018
• These families all had the same common type of synesthesia that couples sounds with colors.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2018
• Dearmore did some research and discovered this is called synesthesia.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
• Not everyone with mirror-touch synesthesia has been able to harness it in such a positive way.
  — Natalie Angley, CNN, 16 June 2017
• People with the most common type, grapheme-color synesthesia, see letters as colors.
  — Shanley Pierce, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Barns-Graham, who had synesthesia, left behind pages filled with letters turned into colors.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 July 2024
• After all, translating one sense into another is what synesthesia is, in a nutshell.
  — Vanessa Potter, CNN, 10 Oct. 2017
• Research into synesthesia has gained momentum in recent years.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 18 Jan. 2017
• But her mother, Amanda Schaefer, says signs of Pohlmann’s synesthesia emerged early on.
  — Maureen Seaberg, Glamour, 28 Feb. 2018
• Speaking of Lego as a medium, watching the movie I was struck by how that sort of fed into Pharrell’s synesthesia.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2024
• Even people with the same type of synesthesia can have totally different internal landscapes.
  — David Frese, kansascity, 12 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• The synesthesia scene was crucial in conveying Williams’ childlike innocence and sense of wonder.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
• Eilish, for example, has synesthesia and was an avid fragrance collector prior to creating her own.
  — James Manso, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• However, conditions like synesthesia, color blindness and tone deafness are a few minor examples to the contrary.
  — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
• But how does a play evoke synesthesia, a phenomenon in which the senses entwine in atypical ways, allowing for perceptions like smelling sounds or tasting colors?
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• Scholl believes his head injury triggered a form of synesthesia, a rare neurological condition where a cognitive pathway is formed between two stimuli.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• 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