1. anesthetic - Noun
2. anesthetic - Adjective
3. anesthetic - Adjective Satellite
Same as Anaesthesia, Anaesthetic.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLife is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. David Foster Wallace
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation? Cesare Pavese
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like. Bill Bryson
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic. Paul Bowles