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