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vedanā

vedana

masc nom pl of vedana (adj); fem nom sg of vedana (adj); fem nom pl of vedana (adj); nt nom pl of vedana (adj); …

1. vedanā (fem): (pleasant, unpleasant or neutral) felt experience; feeling; feeling tone; hedonic tone; sensation (coming from six sense experience); second of the five aggregates; lit. causing to know
2. vedanā (fem): pain; lit. causing to know
3. vedana (adj): with felt experience; with a feeling; having a feeling tone; lit. causing to know

Etymology. √vid > ved + *anā + a; from √vid 'know, sense, feel'; Sanskrit vedana [vid]

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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