The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀλλοῖος“changed, different”
- English todayalliesthesia
Coined by Michel Cabanac and Stylianos Nicolaïdis in 1971. From Ancient Greek ἀλλοῖος (alloîos, “changed, different”) + -esthesia (“sensation”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.