💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Phonesthesia"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| phonaesthesianoun | (linguistics) Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonesthemes. |
| phonaesthemenoun | Alternative spelling of phonestheme. [(linguistics) A sound that, because it appears in a number of words of similar meaning, has a recognizable semantic association.] |
| onomatopoeianoun | (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss". |
| phonesthemenoun | (linguistics) A sound that, because it appears in a number of words of similar meaning, has a recognizable semantic association. |
| onomatopoesisnoun | onomatopoeia |
| onomatopenoun | (linguistics) A word formed by onomatopoeia or mimesis. |
| ideophonenoun | (grammar) A word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement. |
| phonomimenoun | (linguistics) A word or phrase that mimics a sound. |
| metaphonologynoun | (linguistics) An awareness of phonology |
| allophonicsnoun | (linguistics) The use of allophones (alternative pronunciations). |
| phoneticsnoun | (linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols. |
| ideophoneticsnoun | (linguistics) The representation of ideas by sounds |
| phonologynoun | (uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including accent, intonation, phonemes, stress, and syllable structure, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language; (countable) the way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system. |
| phonosemanticsnoun | phonetic symbolism |
| phono-semantic matchingnoun | (linguistics) The borrowing of a word into one language from another which completely or partially preserves both the original sound and meaning but does so via substitution of etymons. |
| anaphonesisnoun | (phonology) The raising of /e/, /o/ to /i/, /u/ before certain consonantal environments, mainly [ŋ] and /ʎ/, occurring originally in some Tuscan dialects, and thus in Standard Italian. |
| phonemicsnoun | (linguistics) The study of phonemes and their written representations. |
| lexicophonologynoun | (linguistics) The adaptation of word forms to reflect pronunciation. |
| onomatopoetrynoun | A type of poetry based around onomatopoeia. |
| lexical correspondencenoun | (linguistics) A set of cognate words or morphemes in two or more related languages, where regular sound correspondences occur between the phonemes contained in the words. |
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