synæsthesis
(sɪnɪsˈθiːsɪs)
[mod.L., a. Gr. συναίσθησις joint perception.]
a. (See quot.)
| 1881 Mivart Cat 386 note, The sum-total of the mental action of a rational animal may be called its noesis, which will be the analogue of the synesthesis or sum-total of the felt neural psychoses of an irrational animal. |
b. (See quots.)
| 1922 C. K. Ogden et al. Foundations of Aesthetics 76 Synaesthesis..covers both equilibrium and harmony. 1923 Ogden & Richards Meaning of Meaning vii. 267 We cannot enter here into the details of what, from the standpoint of more or less conventional psychology, may be supposed to happen in these states of synaesthesis. 1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. Terms 327/2 Synæsthesis, the harmonious and balanced concord stimulated by art, as posited in the definition of beauty advanced by Ogden, Richards, and Wood in The Foundations of Aesthetics. 1949 Wimsatt & Beardsley in Sewanee Rev. LVII. 40 Among these [types of aesthetic theory] the theory of synaesthesis (Beauty is what produces an equilibrium of appetencies) was the one they themselves [sc. Ogden, Richards, & Wood] espoused. |