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anhedonia

[ an-hee-doh-nee-uh ]

noun

Psychology.
  1. lack of pleasure or of the capacity to experience it:

    Severely depressed people often exhibit decreased interest in social interaction, disturbed concentration, and anhedonia.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ··Dz· [an-hee-, don, -ik], adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of anhedonia1

First recorded in 1895–1900; from Greek an- + ŧDz(ḗ) “pleasure” + -ia; an- 1, -ia
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But you also have to meet criteria for having a low mood, or anhedonia.

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Sometimes giving up drinking involves anhedonia, which is an inability to find pleasure in the activities you once enjoyed.

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I ended up leaving midyear due to my anhedonia, a clinical term that refers to the inability to experience pleasure.

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One person, for example, reported feeling anhedonia even five months after ceasing to take the supplement, while another claimed ashwagandha made them "question reality."

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This leaves him, he adds, in a consistent state of anhedonia: a reduced ability to feel pleasure.

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