pseudesthesia

An imaginary sensation felt in the absence of a stimulus.

Noun

  1. An imaginary sensation felt in the absence of a stimulus.
    • […] and many hospital authorities are open to censure in that they do not attempt to employ a psychotherapist even in the most severe cases of pseudesthesia. - 1952, Donovan Hilton Rawcliffe, The Psychology of the...

Origin

From pseud- + -esthesia.

Forms

pseudæsthesia pseudaesthesia