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algedonic

a. Pertaining to both pleasure and pain.

Usage examples of "algedonic".

Pity welled up in me, with a sense of helplessness, as I thought of him opening the door to men, night after night, at his establishment in the Algedonic Quarter.

Without significance except as vignettes, as interesting discords, as pleasurable because vivid examples of the algedonic polarity of existence.