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pseudosynesthesia en · NOUN

Etymology

From pseudo- + synesthesia.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A condition resembling synesthesia that is not true synesthesia.
    • In order to distinguish true synesthesia from pseudosynesthesia, for example, they have devised tests that only a genuine synesthete can "pass." 2007, Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain:

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