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Etymology

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non- +‎ anesthetic

Adjective

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nonanesthetic (not comparable)

  1. Not anesthetic.
    • 2007 February 18, Lawrence Downes, “Running Into Fences”, in New York Times[1]:
      He seeks to widen them somehow, by doing something else, something tactile, nonanesthetic, something to get adrenaline moving in his numbed veins.

Noun

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nonanesthetic (plural nonanesthetics)

  1. A drug without anesthetic effects.