hyperaesthesian.
/ˌhʌɪpərɛsˈθiːsɪə//ˌhʌɪpəriːsˈθiːsɪə/ a. Pathology. Excessive and morbid sensitiveness of the nerves or nerve-centres.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered sensation > [noun]
formication1707
horripilation1776–84
pseudaesthesia1822
paraesthesia1848
hyperaesthesia1849
paraesthesis1857
phantom limb1871
hemianaesthesia1878
allochiria1881
polyaesthesia1888
allaesthesia1890
thermo-anaesthesia1890
acroparaesthesia1892
allachaesthesia1894
thermaesthesia1899
trichaesthesia1902
hypoaesthesia1906
thermo-aesthesia1909
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1184/2 In a case of Hyperæsthesia..the patient could perceive the distinctness of the two points on the foot.
1880 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose I. 415 Hysterical persons, suffering from hyperaesthesia or paraesthesia of the larynx, often erroneously fancy that something is sticking in the part.
b. transferred. Excessive sensibility or sensitiveness (in general).
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > excessive sensitiveness
supersensibility1828
supersensitiveness1830
oversensitiveness1841
hyperaesthesia1865
hypersensitiveness1876
oversensitivity1925
hypersensitivity1954
1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. 103 (note) In sleep, hyperæsthesia of the memory is very common.
1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iv. 264 He suffered dreadfully from what may be called social hyperæsthesia, a morbid over-feeling of the relations between himself and others.
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