In the continent, fallen angel shows lack of pain (9)
I believe the answer is:
analgesia
'lack of pain' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'in the continent fallen angel' is the wordplay.
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'continent' becomes 'asia' (Asia is an example).
'fallen' is an anagram indicator.
'angel' anagrammed gives 'nalge'.
'asia' going around 'nalge' is 'ANALGESIA'.
'shows' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for analgesia that I've seen before include "painless" , "Absence of pain" , "result of medication?" , "Loss of pain" , "Inability to feel pain" .)