Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In psychology and esthetics, relating to the affections of pleasantness and unpleasantness; pertaining to pleasure and pain.
- In psychology and esthetics, the doctrine of affection; the science of pleasure and pain.
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- adjective Pertaining to both
pleasure andpain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There were four levels of control (firm, branch, sector, total), with algedonic feedback (if lower level of control didn't remedy a problem in a certain interval, the higher level was notified).
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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There were four levels of control (firm, branch, sector, total), with algedonic feedback (if lower level of control didn't remedy a problem in a certain interval, the higher level was notified).
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Stafford had hoped to install "algedonic meters" or early warning public opinion meters in "a representative sample of Chilean homes that would allow Chilean citizens to transmit their pleasure or displeasure with televised political speeches to the government or television studio in real time."
ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS editor@arthurmag.com 2010
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It really isn't going to get any better until there is an algedonic feedback loop in place to reward success and punish failure.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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And, going back to my earlier point about algedonic feedback loops, people who never receive negative feedback are unlikely ever to learn their jobs adequately.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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With no functioning algedonic feedback loops, evolutionary improvement can never occur.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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There were four levels of control (firm, branch, sector, total), with algedonic feedback (if lower level of control didn’t remedy a problem in a certain interval, the higher level was notified).
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- test in which an accused person plunges his hand into vat of boiling water algedonic adj. - pertaining to pain, especially in association with pleasure.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word algedonic
JM is surrounded by algedonic opportunities and struggles to resist some of them.
May 3, 2010
qms commented on the word algedonic
To artists whose gig is harmonic
Applause is an absolute tonic.
They notice its length
And assay its strength
By internal rules algedonic.
February 19, 2019