Meanings
plural analgesias · alternative rare antalgesia
- countableuncountablemedicineA process or the act of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain.
This office procedure is quick and straightforward, but it does require some analgesia.
Synonyms: pain relief
- broadlycountablemetonymicallyoftenproscribeduncountableA medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.
apply an analgesia
2 more examples
She was able to take analgesia orally.
Most physical distress yields to some analgesia—not so depression.
1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times, →ISSNSynonyms: analgesic
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe inability to feel pain.
nounA process or the act of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain.
nounA medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Hellenic*ə-
- Ancient Greekἀν- (an-)
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂leg-der.?
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓́λγος (ắlgos)
- Ancient Greekἀλγέω (algéō)
- Ancient Greekἀνάλγητος (análgētos)
- Ancient Greekἀναλγησίᾱ (analgēsíā)
- New Latinanalgēsia
- Englishanalgesia
Learned borrowing from New Latin analgēsia. By surface analysis, an- + algesia.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan analgèsia, anàlgia
- analgèsiainability to feel pain
- anàlgiainability to feel pain
Finnish analgesia
- analgesiainability to feel pain
French analgésie, analgie
- analgésieinability to feel pain
- analgieinability to feel pain
German Analgesie
- Analgesieinability to feel pain
Italian analgesia
- analgesiainability to feel pain
Polish analgezja
- analgezjainability to feel pain
Portuguese analgesia, analgia
- analgesiainability to feel pain
- analgiainability to feel pain
Russian анальгезия
- анальгезия (analʹgezija)inability to feel pain
Spanish analgesia
- analgesiainability to feel pain
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with analgesia
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analgesia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/analgesia
“analgesia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/analgesia. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “analgesia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/analgesia.
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