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vedanākkhayo

vedanākkhaya

masc nom sg of vedanākkhaya (noun)

1. wearing away of feeling; exhaustion of (painful) sensation

Built from

• vedanā — stem · feeling
  From √vid 'to see, know' (English wit, Latin vidēre, Greek οἶδα oida). In Buddhist psychology, vedanā is the affective tone that arises with every act of perception—pleasure, pain, or neutrality.
• kkhaya — stem · wearing away, decay
  From √kṣi 'to wear away, decay, destroy' (Sanskrit kṣaya, cognate with English consume, decay). Denotes the exhaustion or cessation of a process, here the final extinction of sensation in final Nibbāna.

Analysis. vedanā (feeling, sensation) + kkhaya (wearing away, decay); a doctrinal term for the cessation or exhaustion of the three types of feeling (sukha, dukkha, adukkhamasukha) that characterizes the release into Nibbāna.

Etymology. vedanā from √vid (to see, know; cognate with English wit, Latin vidēre, Greek oida); kkhaya from √kṣi (to wear away, decay; related to Sanskrit kṣaya, cognate with English consume, decay). The compound expresses the annihilation of sensation as a mark of final liberation.

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

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