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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The ability to feel or perceive sensations.
Wiktionary
- n. The ability to perceive sensations.
WordNet 3.0
- n. mental responsiveness and awareness
Etymologies
- Back-formation from anesthesia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Do you think people actually 'want' to have an invasive, often under aesthesia surgery unless the doctor and the patient deem it necessary and in the best interest of the woman - it's rare for a reason.”
“There are zones of marked hyper-aesthesia on his limbs.”
The Land of Mist
“If his love-affairs stopped short of the gratification of the senses, they involved a perpetual fondling and caressing of those effeminate sensibilities of his into that condition of hyper-aesthesia which, though Sterne regarded it as the strength, was in reality the weakness, of his art.”
Sterne
“n. - sense perception, aesthesia. aestival adj. - of summer. aestivation, n.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aesthesia’.
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 238 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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axilla, avalement, argil, argent, argand, arete, aretaics, areometer, areology, arenoid, arenaceous, arefy and 1214 more...
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Slam Fodder
Those words that will inevitable end up in a Slam Poem
feel free to challenge me!:)bumptious, gamekeeper, slamily, burbuliatorius, cryptomnesia, paradox, pulchritudinous, mimetic, anhedonia, skelf, rampike, furlough and 84 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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they make me happy
apogee, flummox, dollop, undulate, senescence, soliloquy, ricochet, ennui, phalanx, nosh, smarmy, abscond and 73 more...
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