colored hearing

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   a form of chromesthesia in which experiences of color accompany auditory stimuli

   Synonymscolored audition

   Broaderchromesthesia

Questions about colored hearing

What does colored hearing mean?

colored hearing means "a form of chromesthesia in which experiences of color accompany auditory stimuli".

What is another word for colored hearing?

Close synonyms include colored audition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is colored hearing a common word?

colored hearing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.