Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In psychology, inability to feel pleasure: the opposite of analgesia.
Wiktionary
- n. The inability to feel pleasure.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an inability to experience pleasure
Etymologies
- New Latin anhēdonia : Greek an-, without; see a-1 + Greek hēdonē, pleasure; see swād- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition.”
“{143} Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition.”
“It's being looked at to help people with anhedonia, which is an inability to experience pleasure from certain activities.”
“Appetites for both food and sexual pleasure fade, creating a state called anhedonia, or a lack of pleasure-seeking.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you can’t take pleasure in things that used to make you happy, it’s called anhedonia, and it’s a sign of serious depression.”
“Ironically, the act of using "anhedonia" in a sentence is one of the least anhedoniacal events imaginable.”
“(This last line belongs to Dana Stevens of Slate, and bravo to her; it's not often one works the word "anhedonia" into the pages of a major magazine, and rarer still that one does so with such offhanded panache.)”
““The image I was cultivating was Last Man Standing, but I realized I felt sick most of the time, that anhedonia had set in, just as it did with Doug near the end.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anhedonia’.
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• Little pains in my butt
Annoying, little, things. In a single word.
psoriasis, interjections, sultriness, spam, mice, mosquitoes, dust, mould, ipod, pimple, blister, sliver and 93 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Lachrymose Words
bubulcitate, dysphoric, dacryolin, anhedonia, algesia, scrofula, shtum, zemblanity, planxty, pleonexia, felo-de-se, brumal
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Down in the dumps, feeling blue? Here, then, is a list for you...
feeling blue, down in the dumps, blue devils, mulligrubs, mubblefubbles, melancholy, lugubrious, gloomy gus, eeyore, doleful, woeful, woebegone and 86 more...
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Slam Fodder
Those words that will inevitable end up in a Slam Poem
feel free to challenge me!:)bumptious, gamekeeper, slamily, burbuliatorius, cryptomnesia, paradox, pulchritudinous, mimetic, anhedonia, skelf, rampike, furlough and 84 more...
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mental health; "anyone's lived experience"
emotions, thoughts, contemplations, delusions, hallucinations, sorrows, feelings,
anhedonia, I only cried once..., alexithymia, obfuscate, affable, integrety
bilby "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. Aug 19, 2009
super-logos Seen in dysphoric or depressed people. A pervasive loss of interest in pleasurable activities.
"The hedonist became anhedonic after suffering a stroke." Aug 18, 2008
milosrdenstvi From Greek hedonē, pleasure, and a-privative. Aug 18, 2008