Since I feel in a speculative mood today, I wonder if there is a term for the very possibility of articulating an unarticulated sensory impression in the same "channel", so to speak (words for sounds both address the auditory channel, but I am hard pressed to find a visual analog of onomatopoeia - not to speak of the olfactory pathway..)
This word is not completely irrelevant to your question :
synaesthesia
noun
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.
A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.
The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.
And, come to think of it, this was an idea Arthur Rimbaud addressed in his work [1] for which he coined a term... something like "discorrelation" ; damn this infernal lethologica!
[1] "The poet makes himself into a seer by a long, tremendous and reasoned derangement of all the senses." —Arthur Rimbaud
Last edited by Homo Loquens; 11/16/05 12:40 PM.
