alliesthesia
Meanings
noun
- The relationship between the pleasure associated with a stimulus and the internal state of an organism
Word forms
Etymology
Coined by Michel Cabanac and Stylianos Nicolaïdis in 1971. From Ancient Greek ἀλλοῖος (alloîos, “changed, different”) + -esthesia (“sensation”).
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