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synaesthetic (comparative more synaesthetic, superlative most synaesthetic)
- (of a person) experiencing synaesthesia; describing a synaesthete.
- ✤ Liz said that her name looks yellow, so I assume she’s synaesthetic.
- Pertaining to synaesthesia.
- ✤ One of the most common synaesthetic effects is to perceive each letter as having a colour.
- ✤ Wherever he was, whatever he was doing, he found himself suddenly accosted by some kind of synaesthetic fixation with the woman: hearing the colour of her hair in the mosque, smelling the touch of her hand on the tube, tasting her smile while innocently walking the streets.1
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2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 22: ↩
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