Word Meanings - AESTHESIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anæsthesia.

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• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• PERCEPTION
  The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses;
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• FEELING
  1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
• FEEL
  f; akin to OS. gif to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. falma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over
• OPPOSITENESS
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• OPPOSITELY
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
• OPPOSITE
  1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
• MISFEELING
  Insensate. Wyclif.
• DYSAESTHESIA
  Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch.
• AESTHESIA
  Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anæsthesia.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• APPERCEPTION
  The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception
• HEMIANAESTHESIA
  Anæsthesia upon one side of the body.
• PSEUDAESTHESIA
  False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.
• THERMOANAESTHESIA; THERMOANESTHESIA
  Loss of power to distinguish heat or cold by touch.
• PARA-ANAESTHESIA; PARA-ANESTHESIA
  Anæsthesia of both sides of the lower half of the body.
• IMPERCEPTION
  Want of perception.
• REPERCEPTION
  The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object. No external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine. Keats.
• MISPERCEPTION
  Erroneous perception.
• HYPERAESTHESIA
  A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it. -- Hy`per*æs*thet"ic, a.