anaesthesia

Other forms of anaesthesia

plural

anaesthesias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anaesthesia

What does anaesthesia mean?

anaesthesia means "loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness".

How many syllables are in anaesthesia?

anaesthesia has 4 syllables: an-aes-the-sia. The stress falls on "the". In IPA it is /ˌænəsˈθiʒə/.

What is another word for anaesthesia?

Close synonyms include anesthesia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anaesthesia a common word?

anaesthesia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with anaesthesia?

1 word rhymes with anaesthesia. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.