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Definition of Photism
1. n. A luminous image or appearance of a hallucinatory character.
Definition of Photism
1. Noun. (psychology) A luminous appearance, image or subjective perception of a hallucinatory nature. ¹
2. Noun. The color that a synesthete may report seeing in association with a particular letter or number ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Photism
1. a visual sensation [n -S]
Medical Definition of Photism
1. Production of a sensation of light or colour by a stimulus to another sense organ, such as of hearing, taste, or touch. Synonym: pseudophotesthesia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Photism
Literary usage of Photism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Symptomatology, Psychognosis, and Diagnosis of Psychopathic Diseases by Boris Sidis (1914)
"Red, yellow, and brown are frequent photism colors; violet and green are rare,
while blue stands between these extremes. Secondary sensations in their pure ..."
2. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"Thus the sound and its accompanying photism produced by a guitar seem, in the
opinion of the colour-hearer, to come from the string struck ; the bright ..."
3. An Outline of Abnormal Psychology by James Winfred Bridges (1921)
"If such a photism is a complex perception of an object, it is a hallucination.
2. Colored taste, smell, pain, pressure, temperature, etc., may also occur, ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"... up with the perception of a colored body that one's attention is attracted
away from the photism even when it is attracted to the color of the object. ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"These may, however, be grouped, in the first place with regard to the nature and
intensity of the photism (the color which is induced), and secondly with ..."
6. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"... and photism. Working distance (wfrc'ing) The distance of the objective of a
microscope from the object viewed when it is at focus. ..."
7. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"1 1 These reports of sensorial photism shade off into what are evidently only
metaphorical accounts of the sense of new spiritual illumination, as, ..."
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