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Jun 21, 2012 This week's theme Back-formations This week's words adulate sere ablate esthesia auscultate Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg esthesia or aesthesia 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. Explore "esthesia" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise. -Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright (1732-1799)

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