analgesia

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: an=al=ge=si=a

CIDE DICTIONARY

analgesia, n. [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