Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In psychology and esthetics, relating to the affections of pleasantness and unpleasantness; pertaining to pleasure and pain.
- In psychology and esthetics, the doctrine of affection; the science of pleasure and pain.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἄλγος (algos, "pain") + ἡδονή ‘pleasure’. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There were four levels of control (firm, branch, sector, total), with algedonic feedback (if lower level of control didn't remedy a problem in a certain interval, the higher level was notified).”
“Stafford had hoped to install "algedonic meters" or early warning public opinion meters in "a representative sample of Chilean homes that would allow Chilean citizens to transmit their pleasure or displeasure with televised political speeches to the government or television studio in real time.”
“It really isn't going to get any better until there is an algedonic feedback loop in place to reward success and punish failure.”
“And, going back to my earlier point about algedonic feedback loops, people who never receive negative feedback are unlikely ever to learn their jobs adequately.”
“With no functioning algedonic feedback loops, evolutionary improvement can never occur.”
“There were four levels of control (firm, branch, sector, total), with algedonic feedback (if lower level of control didn’t remedy a problem in a certain interval, the higher level was notified).”
“- test in which an accused person plunges his hand into vat of boiling water algedonic adj. - pertaining to pain, especially in association with pleasure.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘algedonic’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 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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Lyeneia's Field Journal
footnotes and add-ons from the gap-lands.
limey, apostate, conflagrate, kindle, dispossess, provenience, reckless malice, honking didactica..., consequential exi..., morainal, morae, compass and 28 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Words to Use
habitué, hackney, harpy, harridan, hedonism, hootenanny, callipygous, lucubrate, pococurante, querulous, recondite, susurrus and 110 more...
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I've Run a Fowles.
Words from The Magus
magus, bougainvillea, innermost, numen, imbricate, bilges, sandal-wood, incorporeal, fleshpot, desipience, batrachian, caique and 82 more...
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Word of the Day
perjorist, algedonic, phoneme, anatidaephobia, satyagraha, ebullience, celestial, passacaglia
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kingtaj's Words
lament, dissonant, fontanelle, languor, sallow, dalliance, dolor, iniquity, myrrh, cardamom, balmy, bemusement and 76 more...
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jmjarmstrong JM is surrounded by algedonic opportunities and struggles to resist some of them. May 3, 2010