Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The inability to experience pleasure, as seen in certain mood disorders.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In psychology, inability to feel pleasure: the opposite of
analgesia .
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- noun medicine, psychiatry The inability to feel
pleasure .
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- noun an inability to experience pleasure
Etymologies
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Examples
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Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition.
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{143} Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition.
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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It's being looked at to help people with anhedonia, which is an inability to experience pleasure from certain activities.
CHIP AHOY! News from Mad Plato 2008
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It's being looked at to help people with anhedonia, which is an inability to experience pleasure from certain activities.
Archive 2008-12-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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Appetites for both food and sexual pleasure fade, creating a state called anhedonia, or a lack of pleasure-seeking.
Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One Ann Smolin 1993
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Appetites for both food and sexual pleasure fade, creating a state called anhedonia, or a lack of pleasure-seeking.
Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One Ann Smolin 1993
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Appetites for both food and sexual pleasure fade, creating a state called anhedonia, or a lack of pleasure-seeking.
Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One Ann Smolin 1993
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In the condition called anhedonia, which we shall hear of from time to time, there is a blocking or dropping out of the sense of desire and satisfaction even if through habit one eats, drinks, has sexual relationship, keeps up his work and carries out his plans.
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"One of the major problems in depression is what is called anhedonia -- an inability to be able to be satisfied or happy or content with normally pleasurable activities in life."
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"One of the major problems in depression is what is called anhedonia -- an inability to be able to be satisfied or happy or content with normally pleasurable activities in life."
milosrdenstvi commented on the word anhedonia
From Greek hedonē, pleasure, and a-privative.
August 18, 2008
super-logos commented on the word anhedonia
Seen in dysphoric or depressed people. A pervasive loss of interest in pleasurable activities.
"The hedonist became anhedonic after suffering a stroke."
August 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word anhedonia
"Decreased motivation to seek and experience pleasurable experiences, known as anhedonia, is a primary symptom of major depressive disorder. Anhedonia is less responsive to many antidepressants and often persists after other symptoms of depression subside."
- Worth The Effort? Not If You're Depressed, sciencedaily.com, 16 August 2009.
August 19, 2009