anhedonia
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From French anhédonie (coined by Ribot, 1896), from Ancient Greek ἀν- + ἡδονή (“‘pleasure’”).
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anhedonia (uncountable)
- (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.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 123:

