alliesthesia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by Michel Cabanac and Stylianos Nicolaïdis in 1971. From Ancient Greek ἀλλοῖος (alloîos, “changed, different”) + αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sensation”).[1]
Noun[edit]
alliesthesia (uncountable)
- The relationship between the pleasure associated with a stimulus and the internal state of an organism
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References[edit]
- ^ Michel Cabanac (1971) “Physiological Role of Pleasure”, in Science[1], volume 173, number 4002, American Association for the Advancement of Science, , →ISSN, pages 1103-1107: “I hereby propose the word alliesthesia (8) coming from esthesia (meaning sensation) and allios (meaning changed). […] 8. The word alliesthesia has been chosen in collaboration with Dr. S. Nicolaidis.”