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/

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• Rhymes: -iːʒə

analgesia (countable and uncountable, plural analgesias)

1. (medicine) The inability to feel pain.

   Synonym: analgia

   epidural analgesia

2. (medicine) A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service.

   Synonym: pain relief

   Coordinate term: anaesthesia

   This office procedure is quick and straightforward, but it does require some analgesia.

3. (loosely, metonymic, often proscribed) A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.

   Synonym: analgesic

   Coordinate terms: anesthetic; anesthesia (likewise proscribed in such metonymic usage)

   apply an analgesia

   She was able to take analgesia orally.

   • 1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “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
• Hyphenation^(key): anal‧ge‧sia

analgesia

1. analgesia

• “analgesia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From Ancient Greek ἀναλγησία (analgēsía, “want of feeling, insensibility”).

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

analgésia (plural analgesia-analgesia)

1. (medicine) analgesia: the inability to feel pain

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

From Ancient Greek ἀναλγησία (analgēsía).

analgesia f (plural analgesie)

1. analgesia

• Hyphenation: a‧nal‧ge‧si‧a

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024