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TABLE OF SYNESTHESIA TYPES (by combinations of senses)


The links will take you to the page on each type, with a description and examples.

The table does not list all the existing types of synesthesia (and it isn't a complete list of all the pages on this website), it is just a route for finding information on this site.

Why is it impossible to list all the types of synesthesia that exist?  

Concurrents
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↓ Inducers

Sight

Hearing

Touch

Taste

Smell

Other 
sensations   

Personification
Spatial 
position

Parity

 

Sight

(Note: for more

visual inducers,

see “sequences

of concepts”

below)

Colour-sound

 

Colour-tactile

Mirror touch

Machine empathy 

Colour-taste

 

Colour-smell

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Hearing

(Sight)

Auditory-visual

Including:

Chromesthesia

Tone-colour

Chord-colour

Song/musical genre-colour

Timbre-colour/shape

Key signature-colour

Musical modes-colour

General sounds-vision

Voice-colour/shape

Ticker tape

Phoneme-colour

 

(Touch)

Auditory-tactile

Mirror speech

Sound-texture

(Taste)

Auditory-gustatory

Including, among others:

Tone-taste

Chord-taste

Song/musical genre-taste

Voice-taste

(Smell)

Auditory-olfactory

The types included are described on the page on auditory-olfactory synesthesia

(Other)

Auditory-motor

Music-temperature

Sound-texture

Musical note-texture

(Personification)

Personification of musical sequences

 

 

 

  

Touch

(Sight)

Tactile-visual

(Hearing)

Tactile-auditory

 

(Taste)

Tactile-gustatory 

(Smell)

Tactile-olfactory

 

(Other)

Tactile-emotion

 

 

 

 

  

Taste

(Sight)

Gustatory-visual

 

(Hearing)

Gustatory-auditory

 

(Touch)

Gustatory-tactile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Smell

(Sight)

Olfactory-visual

 

(Hearing)

Olfactory-auditory

 

(Touch)

Olfactory-tactile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other

sensations

(Sight)

Pain-colour/shape

Emotion-colour/shape

Perceived emotion-to-colour/shape

Sexual (and romantic) synesthesia

Kinetics-colour

(Hearing)

Pain-sound

Motion-to-sound

Kinetics-sound

Perceived emotion-sound

 

(Touch)

Emotion-tactile

Perceived emotion-tactile

 

(Taste)

Pain-taste

Emotion-taste

Perceived emotion-taste

 

(Smell)

Pain-smell

Emotion-smell

Perceived emotion-smell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sequences

of

concepts

(Sight)

Time units-colour

Coloured sequences

Concept-shape

Mathematical concepts-vision

Grapheme-colour

Lexeme/ morpheme-colour

Person-colour

Personality-colour

(Hearing)

Grapheme-sound

Concept-sound


 

 

 

(Taste)

Lexical-gustatory

Grapheme-taste

Personality- taste

Concept-taste

 

 

(Smell)

Lexical-olfactory

Grapheme-smell

Personality-smell

Concept-smell

 

(Other)

Lexical-motor

Grapheme-temperature


 

(Personification)

Ordinal linguistic personification

Personification of days or months

Colour personification

Personification of sequences of objects

 

(Spatial)

Spatial sequence

Its subtypes are:

Calendar synesthesia

Number form

Alphabet form

Spatial sequences of other concepts

(Parity)

Stimulus-parity

Duality

 

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Hearing

Touch

Taste

Smell

Other
sensations

Personification

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position

Parity


This page last updated: 04 December 2022


1 comment:

  1. Wow, I've never realized just how many things I experience are a part of my synesthesia, which my therapist and I had only identified within the last few years. For the longest time I thought that everybody saw movie-like scenes overlayed with reality whenever they listened to instrumental music, or were able to taste the colors of what they saw, so you can imagine my surprise when I learned that most people don't experience that 😅

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