idiopathic synaesthesia

idiopathic synaesthesia
   Also known as developmental synaesthesia. The term idiopathic synaesthesia is indebted to the Greek words idiopatheia (affliction of a local origin), sun (together, unified), and aisthanesthai (to notice, to perceive). It is used to denote a type of " synaesthesia with unknown origin, which is usually present as long as the affected individual can remember. The term idiopathic synaes-thesia is used in opposition to "non-idiopathic synaesthesia.
   References
   Harrison, J. (2001). Synaesthesia. The strangest thing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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