[Late 19th century. From modern Latin , which was coined from syn- + the stem of Greek aisthesis " sensation," modeled on anesthesia.] 1. PHYSIOLOGY
sensation felt elsewhere in the body:
the feeling of sensation in one part of the body when another part is stimulated 2. PSYCHOLOGY
stimulation of one sense alongside another:
the evocation of one kind of sense impression when another sense is stimulated, for example, the sensation of color when a sound is heard 3. LITERATURE
rhetorical device:
in literature, the description of one kind of sense perception using words that describe another kind of sense perception, as in the phrase shining metallic words (literary)
