Algedonics
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Algedonics is a noun meaning The scientific study of pleasure and pain responses.
Meaning
The scientific study of pleasure and pain responses.
More Meanings
- (management) The handling of critical events in ways that bypass the usual chain of reporting in order to respond more urgently.
Example Sentences
The information is transferred from S3 to S4, in the form of “algedonics” (dashed line between S3 and S4 in Figure 3).
Marshall viewed aesthetics as a special branch of introspective psychology dealing with algedonics, the science of pleasure and pain.
The plant is adaptive to environmental changes (we have discussed how this could be done through algedonics). But the built-in control systems keep going wrong.
The conception of algedonics interests the physician, then, as far as it helps him to attempt to distinguish between a psychic or physical origin for the headache.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hedonology, hedonics, algesiology, algesimetry, aesthesics, dolorology.
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