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What is phonaesthesia?

What is phonaesthesia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonaesthemes.
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Phonaesthesia occurs when certain sounds become associated with certain meanings, even though they do not attempt to imitate the sound.
Phonaesthesia refers to the vaguer phenomenon whereby families of words with shared phonemes sometimes evoke related meanings in a not-quite-echoic manner.

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