acroanaesthesia | (noun) loss of sensation in the extremities | Synonyms: acroanesthesia |
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aeschynanthus | (noun) a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex | - |
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aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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aesthesia | (noun) mental responsiveness and awareness | Synonyms: esthesia, sensibility |
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aesthesis | (noun) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation | Synonyms: esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression |
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aesthete | (noun) one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature | Synonyms: esthete |
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aesthetic | (adjective) concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste | Synonyms: aesthetical, esthetic, esthetical |
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(adjective) relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics | Synonyms: esthetic |
(adjective) aesthetically pleasing | Synonyms: artistic, esthetic |
(noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful | Synonyms: esthetic |
aesthetical | (adjective) concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste | Synonyms: aesthetic, esthetic, esthetical |
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aesthetically | (adverb) in a tasteful way | Synonyms: esthetically |
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aesthetician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty | Synonyms: esthetician |
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(noun) a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) | Synonyms: esthetician |
aesthetics | (noun) (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art) | Synonyms: esthetics |
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aestival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: estival |
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aestivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: estivate |
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aestivation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens | Synonyms: estivation |
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(noun) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period | Synonyms: estivation |
anaesthesia | (noun) loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness | Synonyms: anesthesia |
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anaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
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(adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
(noun) a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations | Synonyms: anaesthetic agent, anesthetic, anesthetic agent |
anaesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anaesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anesthesiologist, anesthetist |
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anaesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anapaest | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: anapest |
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anapaestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapestic |
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bastnaesite | (noun) a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | Synonyms: bastnasite |
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caesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarian, cesarean, cesarian |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
caesium | (noun) a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal | Synonyms: atomic number 55, cesium, Cs |
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caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
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caesura | (noun) a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | - |
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(noun) a pause or interruption (as in a conversation) | - |
caesural | (adjective) of or relating to a caesura | - |
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chromaesthesia | (noun) a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations | Synonyms: chromesthesia |
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cryaesthesia | (noun) hypersensitivity to cold | Synonyms: cryesthesia |
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cryoanaesthesia | (noun) insensibility resulting from cold | Synonyms: cryoanesthesia |
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inaesthetic | (adjective) violating aesthetic canons or requirements; deficient in tastefulness or beauty | Synonyms: unaesthetic |
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kafkaesque | (adjective) characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger | - |
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kinaesthesia | (noun) the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc | Synonyms: feeling of movement, kinesthesia |
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(noun) the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | Synonyms: kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement |
kinaesthesis | (noun) the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | Synonyms: kinaesthesia, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement |
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kinaesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinesthetic |
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kinaesthetically | (adverb) in a kinesthetic manner; by means of kinesthesia | Synonyms: kinesthetically |
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maestro | (noun) an artist of consummate skill | Synonyms: master |
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palaestra | (noun) a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes | Synonyms: palestra |
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paraesthesia | (noun) abnormal skin sensations (as tingling or tickling or itching or burning) usually associated with peripheral nerve damage | Synonyms: paresthesia |
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praesidium | (noun) a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session | Synonyms: presidium |
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quaestor | (noun) any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration) | - |
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somaesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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(noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
somaesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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somataesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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synaesthesia | (noun) a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated | Synonyms: synesthesia |
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synaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense | Synonyms: synesthetic |
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unaesthetic | (adjective) violating aesthetic canons or requirements; deficient in tastefulness or beauty | Synonyms: inaesthetic |
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