Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ability to feel or perceive sensations.
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- noun The ability to
perceive sensations .
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- noun mental responsiveness and awareness
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Do you think people actually 'want' to have an invasive, often under aesthesia surgery unless the doctor and the patient deem it necessary and in the best interest of the woman - it's rare for a reason.
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There are zones of marked hyper-aesthesia on his limbs.
The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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There are zones of marked hyper-aesthesia on his limbs.
The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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If his love-affairs stopped short of the gratification of the senses, they involved a perpetual fondling and caressing of those effeminate sensibilities of his into that condition of hyper-aesthesia which, though Sterne regarded it as the strength, was in reality the weakness, of his art.
Sterne Traill, H D 1882
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n. - sense perception, aesthesia. aestival adj. - of summer. aestivation, n.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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