analgesia

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun analgesia has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

analgesian. [NL., fr. Gr. ; 'an priv. + sense of pain.].
     Absence of sensibility to pain.  Quain.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

analgesia, n. the absence or relief of pain.

Etymology
mod.L f. Gk, = painlessness

THESAURUS

analgesia

abatement, allayment, alleviation, anesthesia, anesthetizing, anxiety equivalent, appeasement, assuagement, callousness, deadening, deadness, depraved appetite, diminishment, diminution, dulling, dullness, ease, easement, easing, electronarcosis, impassibility, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, inconsiderateness, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, lessening, lulling, mitigation, mollification, narcosis, narcotization, neurasthenia, numbing, numbness, obtuseness, palliation, paresthesia, parorexia, pica, pins and needles, reduction, relief, remedy, salving, softening, soothing, speech abnormality, subduement, thick skin, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unperceptiveness

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