anhedonia

English

WOTD – 18 July 2008    

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Etymology

From French anhédonie (coined by Ribot, 1896), from Ancient Greek ἀν- + ἡδονή (“pleasure”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌan.hɪˈdəʊ.nɪə/
• (US) IPA: /ˌæn.hiˈdoʊ.ni.ə/

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Noun

anhedonia (usually uncountable; plural anhedonias)

1. (medicine, psychiatry) The inability to feel pleasure.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 123:

     Sometimes it is mere passive joylessness and dreariness, discouragement, dejection, lack of taste and zest and spring. Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition.

Derived terms

• anhedonic

Translations

inability to feel pleasure

• Dutch: anhedonie (nl)
• French: anhédonie (fr) f

• Polish: anhedonia (pl) f
• Spanish: anhedonia (es) f

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Noun

anhedonia f

1. (medicine, psychiatry) anhedonia

Declension

    declension of anhedonia

	singular only
nominative	anhedonia
genitive	anhedonii
dative	anhedonii
accusative	anhedonię
instrumental	anhedonią
locative	anhedonii
vocative	anhedonio