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Phonaesthesia vs. Synaesthesia: What's the Difference?

Phonaesthesia and Synaesthesia Definitions

Phonaesthesia

(linguistics) Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonaesthemes.

Synaesthesia

Variant of synesthesia.

Synaesthesia

A neurological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation.

Synaesthesia

(by extension) The association of one sensory perception with, or description of it in terms of, a different perception that is not experienced at the same time.

Synaesthesia

A literary or artistic device whereby one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another.
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Synaesthesia

A sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated

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