Synesthesia: Difference between revisions

The word “synesthesia” or “synaesthesia,” has its origin in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language Greek] roots, syn, meaning union, and aesthesis, meaning sensation: a union of the senses.<ref name=Foot01/> Synesthesia is usually used in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry poetry]. In Poetry it means the concurrent response of two or more of the senses to the stimulation of one<ref name=Foot02/> . In simple terms synesthesia means the mixing of two or more senses at one time. Several authors use synethesia; such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost Robert Frost], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson Emily Dickinson], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri Dante Alighieri], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meredith George Meredith], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare William Shakespeare], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats John Keats].