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An inability to experience pleasure
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anhedonia
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Anhedonia is the debut album by American rock band The Graduate . The tracks "Sit & Sink" and "Justified" were featured on their previous Horror Show EP and were re-recorded for this album. The album title is a reference to Anhedonia , the psychological ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context symptom psychiatry English) The inability to feel pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, such as exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inability to feel pleasure," 1897, from French anhédonie , coined 1896 by French psychologist Theodule Ribot (1839-1916) as an opposite to analgesia , from Greek an- , privative prefix (see an- (1)), + hedone "pleasure" (see hedonist ) + abstract noun ...
WordNet
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n. an inability to experience pleasure
Usage examples of anhedonia.
Anhedonia was apparently coined by Ribot, a Continental Frenchman, who in his 19th-century Psychologic des Sentiments says he means it to denote the psychoequivalent of analgesia, which is the neurologic suppression of pain.
One of the major differentiating factors: narcissists do not experience serious, prolonged anhedonia.
That dead-eyed anhedonia is but a rem-ora on the ventral flank of the true predator, the Great White Shark of pain.
Incandenza's suicide attributes his putting his head in the microwave to this kind of anhedonia.