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synchreses

synchreses is the plural of synchresis.

Meaning of synchresis

Noun

synchresis (plural synchreses)

  1. A type of synergy in a mind's interpretation of combined audio and visual stimuli that either is an audiovisual type of synesthesia or is comparable and contrastable with such type of synesthesia.
    • Synchresis (a word I have forged by combining synchronism and synthesis) is the spontaneous and irresistible weld produced between a particular auditory phenomenon and visual phenomenon when they occur at the same time. This join results independently of any rational logic. Synchresis is...1994, Michel Chion, Audio-vision: Sound on Screen, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 63

Questions about synchreses

What is synchreses the plural of?
Synchreses is the plural of synchresis.

Words near synchreses in the dictionary

  1. synchondrosis
  2. synchondrotic
  3. synchondrotomy
  4. synchoresis
  5. synchorial
  6. synchreses
  7. synchresis
  8. synchro
  9. synchro-
  10. synchro-sunlight
  11. synchrocyclotron

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