I came across this word in my reading of Art Cinema and the Early Avant-Garde, in the charpter about Cinema and the Avant-Garde, by A.L. Rees. The sentence it's used in is:"Abstract animation also dominated the German avant-garde 1919-25, stripping the image to pure graphic form, but ironically also nurturing a modernist variant of synaesthesia, purging the screen of overt human action while developing rythmic interaction of basic symbols (square, circle, triangle) in which music replaces narrativeas a master code" (Nowell-Smith 96).
Here's a definition courtesy of answers.com:
Dictionary: syn·es·the·sia syn·aes·the·sia (sĭn'ĭs-thē'zhə)
also n.
1) A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
2) A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.
3) The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.
http://www.answers.com/topic/synaesthesia
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