English uses the suffix -genic to mean "generating / generated by / producing":

  • anxiogenic (anxiety-producing)
  • iatrogenic (caused by the healer / doctor)
  • neurogenic (produced by the nervous system)

What would the opposite suffix be? Something that means, approximately "the presence of this inhibits" or "exclusive from".


Solution 1:

Came here to provide the same answer as the one Josh61 put in his comment.

The answer is most certainly '-lytic'

Anxiolytic

Neurolysis