TYPES OF SYNAESTHESIA IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

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About the alphabetical list

(Note: this page uses British English spelling (synaesthesia). In the rest of the web you'll find the international spelling "synesthesia" used, although the site is written in British English.)

 

Acupuncture-colour/shape (tactile-visual)

Alphabet form (alphabet spatial sequence synaesthesia)

ASMR (not considered synaesthesia; for similarities/differences see auditory-tactile)

Audio-tactile
Audio-motor (see either lexical-motor or auditory-motor/sound-to-kinetics synaesthesia)
Auditory-gustatory synaesthesia
Auditory-motor synaesthesia (hearing sounds produces involuntary movements)
Auditory-olfactory synaesthesia
Auditory-tactile synaesthesia
Auditory-visual synaesthesia
Aura synaesthesia (projective personality-colour)

Autobiographical time-colour
Calendar synaesthesia (time units-spatial location)
Cardinal points-colour
Centuries-colour
Chords-colour (musical chords)
Chords-taste (musical chords)
Chromesthesia

Cities or towns-colour
Coloured hearing
Coloured numbers
Coloured letters

Coloured sensations
Coloured sequence synaesthesia (colour associations for sequences of things)
Colour-graphemic or colour-grapheme (= grapheme-colour)
Colours-emotion (not considered synaesthesia)
Colours-musical notes (colour-tone synaesthesia)

Colours-numbers
Colours-odd or even
Colours-personality or gender
Colours-smell
Colours-sounds
Colours-tactile sensations
Colours-taste
Colours-tones (musical notes)
Concepts-colour
Concepts-shape
Concepts-smell or taste

Concepts-sound

Concepts-spatial positioning
Countries-colour
Cutlery personification
Dance steps-colour (as a coloured sequence or as kinetics-colour synaesthesia)
Days of the week-colour
Days of the week-colour/shape/texture
Days of the week-image (mentioned in time units-colour)

Days of the week-personality
Days of the week-spatial location

Days of the week-taste or smell
Decades-colour
Dichotomy or Duality (concepts are masculine/feminine, heavy/light, round/sharp etc.)
Emotion as a synaesthetic concurrent (not usually considered synaesthesia)

Emotionally mediated synaesthesia
Emotions observed in other people-colour/shape/smell/taste/sound/touch
Emotions-colour/shape/texture/image
Emotions-smell
Emotions-tactile sensations
Emotions-taste

Emotions-texture
Empathy with machines
Feeling physical pain on seeing or hearing about others hurt (but not in the same part of your body)
Feeling touch, pain etc. in the same part of your body when you observe it in others

Feelings or vibes as a synaesthetic concurrent

Figurative images as a synaesthetic concurrent
Fingers-colour
Flavour (see taste)
Gender as a synaesthetic concurrent (concepts, letters, numbers, etc. are masculine or feminine)
General sounds-colour (and/or shape)
Geometric shapes-colour

Geometric shapes-number
GIFs (motion)-sound
Grapheme-colour synaesthesia
Grapheme-shape/texture/colour/image
Grapheme-smell
Grapheme-sound

Grapheme personification (see ordinal linguistic personification, letter personification or number personification)
Grapheme-taste
Grapheme-temperature
Gustatory-auditory synaesthesia
Gustatory-olfactory (not considered synaesthesia)
Gustatory-tactile synaesthesia
Gustatory-visual synaesthesia
Hearing GIFs
Hearing motion (hearing sounds when you see things moving)

Hearing smells
Hearing sounds for numbers
Hearing the taste of food
Hearing your own body movements

High-production synaesthesia
Ideasthesia (or ideaesthesia) (not a type of synaesthesia but an alternative way of defining it)

Ideas-abstract shapes, spatial positioning, vision
Images (figurative, not abstract) as a synaesthetic concurrent

Images visualised in creative/musical trance

Images - smelling or tasting them
Involuntary movements in response to sounds
Key signature-colour (in music)
Kinetic synaesthesia (or kinesthetic synaesthesia)
Kinetics-colour
Kinetics-sound

Kissing-colours or images
Languages-colour

Learning to play an instrument-images
Left/right-colour

Letter form synaesthesia (letters have a spatial location)
Letters-colour
Letters-colour/shape/texture/image
Letters-personality
Letters-smell/taste
Letters-sound
Letters-spatial location
Letters-temperature
Lexeme-colour

Lexeme-taste (mentioned in lexical-gustatory)
Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia
Lexical-motor synaesthesia
Lexical-olfactory synaesthesia
Machine empathy, machine synaesthesia (machines or other objects induce tactile sensations when watched)
Massage-colour/shape/image (tactile-visual)

Mathematical concepts-vision
Mathematical synaesthesias
Mirror kinetics (involuntary movements on seeing other people move)

Mirror pain
Mirror speech
Mirror touch
Mirror touch with machines or inanimate objects
Misophonia (not considered synaesthesia)

Mixed perceptions or concurrents, multi-sensory synaesthesia
Months-colour
Months-colour/shape/texture
Months-personality
Months-spatial location
Morpheme-colour

Motion-colour
Motion-sound, movement-sound (watching things move makes you hear sound)

Motor synaesthesia
Movements of your own body-colour

Movements of your own body mirroring movements made by other people
Movements of your own body-sound

Multiple perceptions or concurrents, multi-sensory synaesthesia
Music (all music-related types of synaesthesia)
Musical genres-colour
Musical genres-smell
Musical genres-taste
Musical instruments-colour and/or shape

Musical keys-colour

Musical modes-colour
Musical notes-colour

Musical notes-numbers
Musical notes-smell
Musical notes-taste

Musical notes-texture
Musical synaesthesias
Music-colour
Music-emotion (not considered synaesthesia)
Music-images, landscapes or “music videos” (not considered synaesthesia)

Music-numbers
Music-smell
Music-taste
Music-temperature
Music-vision

Names (proper nouns)-images

Names (proper nouns)-movement
Number form synaesthesia (numbers have a spatial location)

Numbers as a synaesthetic concurrent
Numbers-colour
Numbers-personality
Numbers-shape/colour/texture/image
Numbers-smell or taste
Numbers-sound
Numbers-spatial location
Numbers-temperature

Object personification (only considered synaesthesia in certain cases)
Objects are odd or even
Objects have personalities

Odd and even: concepts are either odd or even
Odour (see smell)
Olfactory-auditory synaesthesia
Olfactory-gustatory (not considered synaesthesia)
Olfactory-tactile synaesthesia
Olfactory-visual synaesthesia
OLP (= ordinal linguistic personification)

One-shot synaesthesia
Ordinal linguistic personification
Orgasm-colour/images
Pain empathy (not usually considered synaesthesia)
Pain-colour/shape/image
Pain-smell
Pain-sound
Pain-taste
Parity (odd or even) as a synaesthetic concurrent
Parts of the body-colour

Perceived emotion-colour (and other concurrents)
Person-colour

Person-sound

Personality-colour

Personality-number
Personality-smell
Personality-taste
Personification
Personification of colours
Personification of cutlery
Personification of days or months

Personification of graphemes (see ordinal linguistic personification, letter personification or number personification)
Personification of letters
Personification of musical notes, chords or keys
Personification of numbers
Personification of objects
Personification of musical sounds or sequences

Phases of your life-colour
Phonemes-colour

Phoneme-taste (mentioned in lexical-gustatory)

Pitch-colour

Pitch-texture

Playing a musical instrument-images

Proper nouns-images

Proper nouns-actions/movement

Right/left hand-colour

Scales (musical modes)-colour
School subjects-colour
Seasons of the year-colour

Seeing "auras" around people

Seeing flashes on hearing sudden or loud sounds (not considered synaesthesia)

Seeing images when in a creative/musical trance
Seeing landscapes, figurative images or “music videos” when listening to music (not considered synaesthesia)
Seeing music or sound
Seeing time units, letters or numbers in a spatial location

Seeing sequences of concepts in a spatial location
Seeing smells
Seeing tastes
Seeing touch, pain etc. in other people and feeling it in the same part of your body
Seeing words (like subtitles) when people speak

Sensations-colour or visual perceptions
Sequence-colour
Sequence-spatial

Sequences of concepts-smell or taste

Sequences of concepts-sounds
Sequence personification or sequence-personality
Sexual synaesthesia; sexual and romantic synaesthesia

Shapes-numbers
Sight as a synaesthetic inducer
Smell-emotion: see Emotion as a concurrent or Smell and memories (not considered synaesthesia)

Sight-smell: see smelling images or concept-smell

Sight-taste: see tasting images or concept-taste

Smelling colours (colours trigger smell perceptions)
Smelling images
Smelling music or sound
Smelling numbers

Smelling personalities
Smelling sequences of concepts
Smelling words
Smells-colour
Smells-memories (not considered synaesthesia)
Smells-musical notes or sounds
Smells-shape
Smells-sound
Smells-tactile sensations

Smells-vision
Smell-taste (not considered synaesthesia)
Social synaesthesia
Songs-colour
Songs-smell
Songs-taste
Sounds-colour

Sounds-emotion (not considered synesthesia)

Sounds-numbers
Sounds-physical sensations
Sounds (sudden or loud) produce visual flashes (not considered synaesthesia)
Sounds-shape
Sounds-involuntary movements

Sounds-kinetics

Sounds-personification

Sounds-physical sensations

Sounds-smell
Sounds-tactile sensations (sound-touch)
Sounds-taste
Sounds-temperature
Sounds-texture
Sounds-visual perceptions
Spatial sequence synaesthesia
Spatial sequences of letters
Spatial sequences of numbers
Spatial sequences of other concepts

Spatial sequences of time units
SSS (= spatial sequence synaesthesia)

Stimulus-dichotomy synaesthesia (concepts belong to one of two groups)
Stimulus-parity synaesthesia (concepts are odd or even)
Subtitles (ticker tape synaesthesia)
Swimming styles-colour
Tactile-auditory synaesthesia
Tactile-emotion synaesthesia
Tactile-gustatory synaesthesia
Tactile-olfactory synaesthesia
Tactile-visual synaesthesia
Taste-colour synaesthesia 

Taste-memories (not considered synaesthesia)
Taste-musical notes
Taste-shape
Taste-smell (not considered synaesthesia)
Taste-sound
Taste-tactile sensations
Taste-vision

Tasting colours (colours trigger taste sensations)

Tasting images

Tasting personalities
Tasting sequences of concepts

Tasting sound or music

Tasting words

Temperatures associated with letters or numbers

Temperatures associated with sound or music
Texture-colour/shape/image

Texture-emotion synaesthesia

Texture-smell or taste

Texture-sound

Thoughts-shapes and colours
Ticker tape
Timbre-colour

Timbre-shape
Time units-colour
Time units-image (mentioned in time units-colour)

Time units-spatial location

Time units-personification
Time-space synaesthesia

Tone-colour (musical note-colour)

Tone-taste (musical note-taste)

Tone-texture (musical note-texture)

Touch-colour (and shape/image)

Touch (texture)-emotion
Touch-smell
Touch-sound
Touch-taste

Touch-sight
Towns or cities-colour

Vibes or feelings as a synaesthetic concurrent
Vicarious pain (not normally considered synaesthesia)
Vision as a synaesthetic inducer

Visualised sensations
Visually-induced auditory synaesthesia

Visual-olfactory synaesthesia (vision-smell): see smelling images, concept-smell or colour-smell

Visual-gustatory synaesthesia (vision-taste): see tasting images, concept-taste or colour-taste

Visuo-spatial synaesthesia
Voices-colour
Voices-shape
Voices-smell

Voices-tactile sensations
Voices-taste

Words appear visually when hearing people talk
Words-actions (perceiving moving images)

Words-colour

Words-flavour

Words-images

Words-involuntary body movements

Words-odd or even

Words and letters-shape/texture/colour/images
Words-smell
Words-taste
Words-temperature
Years-colour
Years-spatial location

This page last updated: 18 September 2024