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I associate days of the week with colours and shapes. What is the word for this, when a person makes an association of this type?
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#95489. Asked by crazycube. (May 09 08 2:50 AM)
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BRY2K
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Synesthesia, or more specifically one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme.
Letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a (three-dimensional) view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).
With color synesthesia, individual letters of the alphabet and numbers (collectively referred to as graphemes), are "shaded" or "tinged" with a color. While synesthetes do not, in general, report the same colors for all letters and numbers, studies of large numbers of synesthetes find that there are some commonalities across letters (e.g., A is likely to be red).
Have a green day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
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crazycube
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Actually, for me, today is yellow!
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