This week's theme
Back-formations

This week's words
adulate
sere
ablate
esthesia
auscultate

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PRONUNCIATION:

(es-THEES-zhuh)

MEANING:

noun: The capacity for sensation.

ETYMOLOGY:

Back formation from anesthesia (loss of sensation), from Greek an- (not) + aisthesis (sensation). Earliest documented use: 1829; anesthesia is from 1721.

USAGE:

"Choo began to experience a dearth of aesthesia."
Martin Dec Haynes; Anything Goes; Xlibris; 2011.

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