anesthesia

Other forms of anesthesia

plural

anesthesias·

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 anesthesia

What does anesthesia mean?

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

How many syllables are in anesthesia?

anesthesia has 4 syllables: an-es-the-sia. The stress falls on "the". In IPA it is /ˌænɪsˈθiʒə/.

What is another word for anesthesia?

Close synonyms include anaesthesia. 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 anesthesia a common word?

anesthesia is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 anesthesia?

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