analgesia

• antalgesia (rare)

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).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.ʒə/, /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.ʒi.ə/, /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːʒə

analgesia (countable and uncountable, plural analgesias)

1. (medicine) The inability to feel pain.

   Synonym: analgia

   epidural analgesia

2. (pharmacology) An analgesic (medication that acts to relieve pain).

   She was able to take analgesia orally.

   apply an analgesia

   be under analgesia

   light analgesia

   • 1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Most physical distress yields to some analgesia—not so depression.

Analgesia (feeling no pain) is inherently related to anesthesia (feeling no stimulus at all, or almost none), and accordingly, the drug classes of analgesics and anesthetics overlap, with some shared members, although most pain relievers preserve sensation.

• algesia
• antalgesic

• painkiller

• analgesia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “analgesic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “analgesia”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “analgesia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Internationalism (see English analgesia), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησία (analgēsía).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnɑlɡesiɑ/, [ˈɑ̝nɑ̝lˌɡe̞s̠iɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -esiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): a‧nal‧ge‧si‧a

analgesia

1. analgesia

From New Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησία (analgēsía, “want of feeling, insensibility”), from ἀνάλγητος (análgētos), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) +‎ ἀλγέω (algéō, “feel bodily pain, suffer”) +‎ -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix).

• IPA^(key): [analˈɡesia̯]
• Hyphenation: anal‧gé‧sia

analgésia (first-person possessive analgesiaku, second-person possessive analgesiamu, third-person possessive analgesianya)

1. analgesia: the inability to feel pain.

• “analgesia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Ancient Greek ana- +‎ algesia.

analgesia f (plural analgesie)

1. analgesia

analgesia f (plural analgesias)

1. (medicine) analgesia (absence of the sense of pain)

   Synonym: analgia

• IPA^(key): /analˈxesja/ [a.nalˈxe.sja]
• Rhymes: -esja
• Syllabification: a‧nal‧ge‧sia

analgesia f (plural analgesias)

1. (medicine) analgesia (absence of the sense of pain)

• “analgesia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014