English

Noun

anhedonia ‎(usually uncountable, plural anhedonias)

1. (medicine, psychiatry) The inability to feel pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, such as exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions.
   • 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
• anhedonism

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Pronunciation

Noun

anhedonia f

1. (medicine, psychiatry) anhedonia

Declension

Spanish

Noun

anhedonia f ‎(plural anhedonias)

1. (medicine, psychiatry) anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure)