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algedonic.

Pertaining to both pleasure and pain.

9 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/æld͡ʒɪˈdɒnɪk/
  1. Pertaining to both pleasure and pain.

  2. Relating to algedonics.

Where this word comes from

From Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + ἡδονή (hēdonḗ) ‘pleasure’. Coined by Henry Rutgers Marshall in 1894.

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