analgesia

Meanings

Noun

absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness
The inability to feel pain.
A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service.
A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.

Origin / Etymology

From New Latin analgēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησίᾱ (analgēsíā, “want of feeling, insensibility”), from ἀνάλγητος (análgētos), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἀλγέω (algéō, “feel bodily pain, suffer”) + -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix).

Synonyms

analgesic, analgia, pain relief

Scrabble Score: 10

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Words With Friends Score: 13

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