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    Connotation refers to the emotional or psychological associations a word carries with it. These associations are expressed in the feelings, thoughts and images the word suggests or provokes. They can be positive, negative, or neutral.

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    Cited as an example of the richness of that vocabulary. Unfortunately, there is no derivative of aegritudo in English.

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    By the beginning of the third century BCE, six main philosophical schools of thought had emerged: Platonism, Aristotelianism, Scepticism, Cynicism, Epicureanism and Stoicism.

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    Teleology, originating with Aristotle [66], is the study of the ends or purposes that things serve.

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Quintner, J., Galbraith, M., Cohen, M. (2019). Connotations of Pain in a Socio-Psycho-Biological Framework. In: van Rysewyk, S. (eds) Meanings of Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24154-4_12

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