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grapheme-color

grapheme-color adjective: relating to the perception of colors caused by the sensing of graphemes. Often modifies the term "synesthesia" or "synesthete".

Adjective

grapheme-color (not comparable)

  1. 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
    • 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

Examples of grapheme-color in a sentence

  • 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:

Forms of grapheme-color

alternative formgrapheme-colour
alternative formgrapheme color
alternative formgrapheme colour

Origin of grapheme-color

From grapheme + color.

Questions about grapheme-color

What does grapheme-color mean?
Grapheme-color means relating to the perception of colors caused by the sensing of graphemes. Often modifies the term "synesthesia" or "synesthete".
How do you use grapheme-color in a sentence?
Grapheme-color synesthesia wasn't a skill or talent, no matter how much she wished it was at times.
What part of speech is grapheme-color?
Grapheme-color is an adjective.

Words near grapheme-color in the dictionary

  1. graphematic
  2. graphematics
  3. grapheme
  4. grapheme cluster
  5. grapheme clusters
  6. grapheme-color
  7. grapheme-phoneme correspondence
  8. grapheme-phoneme correspondences
  9. grapheme-to-phoneme
  10. graphemes
  11. graphemic

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