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alliesthesia

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Etymology

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Coined by Michel Cabanac and Stylianos Nicolaïdis in 1971. From Ancient Greek ἀλλοῖος (alloîos, “changed, different”) + -esthesia (“sensation”).[1]

Noun

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alliesthesia (uncountable)

  1. The relationship between the pleasure associated with a stimulus and the internal state of an organism

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  1. ^ Michel Cabanac (1971) “Physiological Role of Pleasure”, in Science‎[1], volume 173, number 4002, American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, →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.”
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