analgesia

[ an-l-jee-zee-uh, -see-uh ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. absence of sense of pain.

analgesia

/ ænˈældʒɪə; ˌænəlˈdʒiːzɪə; -sɪə /

noun

1. inability to feel pain
2. the relief of pain

Word History and Origins

Origin of analgesia¹

1700–10; < New Latin < Greek analgēsía painlessness, equivalent to análgēt ( os ) without pain ( an- an- ¹ + álg ( os ) pain + -ētos adj. suffix) + -ia -ia

Word History and Origins

Origin of analgesia¹

C18: via New Latin from Greek: insensibility, from an- + algēsis sense of pain