anhedonia

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  1. noun The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

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  • I was then in a state of acute anhedonia, and their mothers cooked up this notion for restoring my interest in life. —  Time Enough For Love
  • In addition to anhedonia, algesia, and other conditions, he or she has tangled kid hair. —  Blog updates
  • {143} Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition The state of anhedonia, if I may coin a new word to pair off with analgesia," he writes, "has been very little studied, but it exists. —  Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
  • And when our (anti) hero House could be the poster child (in some respects) for anhedonia, the resonances for him and everyone in his orbit are enormous. —  All articles at Blogcritics
  • Treadway said: "By addressing the motivational dimension of anhedonia, our findings suggest a plausible theoretical connection between dopamine deficiency and reward processing in depression, which may eventually help us better understand how anhedonia responds to treatment." —  Daily News & Analysis
 

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  1. New Latin anhēdonia : Greek an-, without; see a-1 + Greek hēdonē, pleasure; see swād- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀνήδονος, giving no pleasure, from ἀν- privative + ἡδονή, pleasure: see hedonism.
 

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/ænhəˈdoʊniə/
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