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anesis

anesis noun: remission of disease symptoms.

Noun

anesis

  1. Remission of disease symptoms.
  2. (rhetoric) Addition of a sentence, clause or phrase that diminishes what preceded.

Synonyms of anesis

Origin of anesis

From Ancient Greek ἄνεσις (ánesis, “loosening, abatement, remission”).

Questions about anesis

What does anesis mean?
Anesis means remission of disease symptoms.
What part of speech is anesis?
Anesis is a noun.

Words near anesis in the dictionary

  1. aneruptive
  2. anerythrism
  3. anerythristic
  4. Anes
  5. Aneses
  6. anesis
  7. anesthesia
  8. anesthesias
  9. anesthesic
  10. anesthesimeter
  11. anesthesimeters

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