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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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This page last updated: 04 December 2022


3 comments:

  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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  2. I keep having smell-taste synesthesia with other combinations for some reason. I'm not sure why. I always had a particular strong taste and smell, not just in pure strength, but with a specific type of nuance between seeing differences between similar tastes and smell. The weirdest one is personality-taste/smell, where for some reason, people who end up being good people tend to give off a perfume like scent, while more toxic people, even if not obvious at first, smell literally like garbage sometimes. Perhaps this is my unconscious gut feeling manifesting in taste/smell then?

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    1. Yes, absolutely. When you have the type of synesthesia where different people you see, or meet, or know, have a consistent particular colour, taste, or smell, like in your case, it corresponds to what your intuition tells you about them, your "unconscious gut feeling manifesting" as you say. So you don't even have to think about it consciously - it just appears as soon as you see (or think about) the person. And in general I think it can often be a very good guide to what that person is really like - it seems to tap into observation skills that are better than the ones we have when we're distracted, reasoning too much or perhaps listening to what that same person or other people are saying about them :D

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