Relieving or soothing pain; having pain-relieving properties; anodyne (archaic).
From Greek an- (without) + odyne (pain) + -ous (adjectival suffix). An archaic variant of anodyne.
This archaic term shows how English once had multiple ways to say 'pain-relieving'—we've consolidated to mainly use 'anodyne' now, showing how language naturally prunes redundant synonyms over centuries.
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