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grapheme-color en · ADJ

Etymology

From grapheme + color.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Relating to the perception of colors caused by the sensing of graphemes. Often modifies the term "synesthesia" or "synesthete".
   • Almost as frequent as grapheme-color synesthesia is the type of crosssensory perception in which sounds are perceived as colored (sound-color synesthesia or colored hearing). 2013, Dani Cavallaro, Synesthesia and the Arts, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, →ISBN, page 8, →ISBN:
   • Grapheme-color synesthesia wasn't a skill or talent, no matter how much she wished it was at times. 2015, Colby Marshall, Double Vision, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 76, →ISBN:
   • In this chapter, we explore how grapheme-color synesthesia might be expressed in second languages. 2018, Edward M. Hubbard, Julia Simner, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 165, →ISBN:
   • Hence, grapheme-colour synaesthetes could often experience a negative emotional response and anger if they read a text with the 'wrong colours' on billboards, on television, or in books. 2015, Aleksandra Maria Rogowska, Synaesthesia and Individual Differences, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 133, →ISBN:
   • There were eight participants […] whose number of grapheme-colour pairings differed between the rounds. 2019, Jan Chromý with Marianna Borůvková, Lucie Malá, and Tereza Sudzinová, “Long-term versus short-term consistency in the grapheme-colour synaesthesia: Grapheme-colour pairings can change in adulthood”, in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, volume 81, page 1810:

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synesthesia