grapheme-color

English

Alternative forms

• grapheme-colour
• grapheme color
• grapheme colour

Etymology

From grapheme +‎ color.

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".
   • 2013, Dani Cavallaro, Synesthesia and the Arts‎^[1], McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, →ISBN, page 8, →ISBN:

     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).

   • 2015, Aleksandra Maria Rogowska, Synaesthesia and Individual Differences‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 133, →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, Colby Marshall, Double Vision‎^[3], Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 76, →ISBN:

     Grapheme-color synesthesia wasn't a skill or talent, no matter how much she wished it was at times.

   • 2018, Edward M. Hubbard, Julia Simner, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia‎^[4], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 165, →ISBN:

     In this chapter, we explore how grapheme-color synesthesia might be expressed in second languages.

   • 2019, Jan Chromý with Marianna Borůvková, Lucie Malá, and Tereza Sudzinová, “Long-term versus short-term consistency in the grapheme-colour synaesthesia: Grapheme-colour pairings can change in adulthood”, in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics‎^[5], volume 81, page 1810:

     There were eight participants […] whose number of grapheme-colour pairings differed between the rounds.