hyperchromatopsia

English

Etymology

In 1848, French physician Dr. Charles-Auguste-Édouard Cornaz became the first person to give a name to the condition of synesthesia, at the time naming it hyperchromatopsie (perception de trop de couleurs or hyperchromatopsia (perception of too many colors), because Cornaz viewed the condition as opposite to another known condition of "chromatodysopsie" (or chromatodysopsia, color blindness). This term served as a precursor to what would become hyperesthesia.

Dr. Cordaz's term fell out of favor after French physician Dr. Ernest Chabalier coined the term pseudochromesthésie (or pseudochromesthesia), eventually evolving into synesthesia.[1]

Noun

hyperchromatopsia (uncountable)

  1. (rare, obsolete, neurology, psychology) An early term for a type of synesthesia; perception of too many colors at once.

See also

References

  1. ^ 2019. Jörg Jewanski, Julia Simner, Sean A. Day, Nicolas Rothen & Jamie Ward. "The evolution of the concept of synesthesia in the nineteenth century as revealed through the history of its name". National Library of Medicine.
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