colored hearing
- noun
- /ˈkoʊlərd ˈhɪrɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
audición cromática
- Some people with synesthesia experience colored hearing, seeing flashes of color when they hear music.
Examples
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She experiences colored hearing when she listens to music.
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Researchers study colored hearing to understand links between the senses in the human brain.
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Her colored hearing allows her to associate each musical note with a specific hue.
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Many artists, like Kandinsky, had colored hearing.
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Her colored hearing allows her to associate each musical note with a specific hue.
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Some people with synesthesia experience colored hearing, seeing flashes of color when they hear music.
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Researchers study colored hearing to understand links between the senses in the human brain.
Synonyms
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A condition where one sense makes you feel another, for example seeing colors when hearing music
A condition in which sounds make someone see colors
A condition in which people see colors when they hear sounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'colored' modifies 'hearing', so a learner who knows both words can infer it describes a kind of hearing that involves color. This maps well onto the synesthesia meaning (sounds experienced with color) and follows a common adjective+noun formation that is likely understandable to a B1 learner without prior exposure.
Etymology
Colored hearing comes from the simple image of colored + hearing: some people 'see colors' when they hear sounds or music. So the phrase means hearing that is connected to color experiences.