pseudesthesia

English

Alternative forms

Noun

pseudesthesia (plural pseudesthesias)

(rare) An imaginary sensation felt in the absence of a stimulus.
- 1952, Donovan Hilton Rawcliffe, The Psychology of the Occult, page 221:
  […] and many hospital authorities are open to censure in that they do not attempt to employ a psychotherapist even in the most severe cases of pseudesthesia.

Translations

imaginary sensation

French: pseudesthésie (fr) m
Italian: pseudoestesia f

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