anhedonia
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- noun
- /ˌænɪˈdoʊniə/
- Specialized
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anhedonia
- Yesterday, my analyst said I had become far too successful to end these obsessions; she claimed I was an international neurotic whose art and anhedonia were indistinguishable.
- social anhedonia
When you are experiencing anhedonia, life seems Gray and flavorless.
- When you are experiencing anhedonia, life seems Gray and flavorless.
- The apathy, the anhedonia, and the inertia.
- And it's a state that we call anhedonia and anhedonia is the state that we often call depression.
Examples
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When someone is diagnosed with anhedonia, they often struggle to find joy in activities they used to enjoy.
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When you are experiencing anhedonia, life seems Gray and flavorless.
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So one of the symptoms of schizophrenia is called anhedonia, which means a lack of interest or pleasure in things in life.
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In other words, they do not suffer from generalized anxiety or anhedonia (inability to enjoy anything in life).
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Mild or early stages of ME/CFS are readily ignored: mistaken for "aging" or (you guessed it) anhedonia or depression, because patients don't physically enjoy the things they used to enjoy.
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Many people suffering from anhedonia report that hobbies and entertainment no longer bring them happiness.
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Dr. Lerner had suggested that she was suffering from anhedonia, the inability to experience pleasure.
Synonyms
A period when a person cannot feel pleasure from things they usually enjoy
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
anhedonia = hedonia (opaque) = an + hedon + ia
The formation uses Greek medical combining elements ('hedon-' and '-ia') that are rare in everyday English, so an average B1 learner is unlikely to derive the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
The word anhedonia comes from Greek parts a- ('without') and hedone ('pleasure'), the same root you see in hedonist. So anhedonia means 'without pleasure', which explains why people with it cannot enjoy things they used to.