Algedonic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /æld͡ʒɪˈdɒnɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Algedonic is an adjective meaning Pertaining to both pleasure and pain.
Meaning
Pertaining to both pleasure and pain.
More Meanings
- (management) Relating to algedonics.
Example Sentences
I have restrained myself, however, from the temptation to invent terms except in one particular, viz. in the word “algedonic” […] which I use adjectively to describe any phase of pain-pleasure experience […].
For him even the most painful social confrontations and contrasts, which would have stabbed the conscience of even the vulgarest nouveau riche, were stingless. Without significance except as vignettes, as interesting discords, as pleasurable because vivid examples of the algedonic polarity of existence.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hedonic, algetic, hyperalgesic, allodynic, algesic, dolorific.
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