anhedonia meaning

• Noun: anhedonia  `anhee'downeeu
  1. An inability to experience pleasure

  Derived forms: anhedonias

  Type of: mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state

  Encyclopedia: Anhedonia

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  [Medicine]
  n : a psychological condition characterized by inability to experience pleasure in acts which normally produce it —compare ANALGESIA — an·he·don·ic adj
  

Examples

1. Reported withdrawal symptoms include anhedonia, lethargy, anxiety, and insomnia.
2. Specific musical anhedonia is distinct from melophobia, the fear of music.
3. _Anhedonia, or the inability to enjoy things.
4. Recent research suggests that social anhedonia may represent a prodrome of psychotic disorders.
5. Rado reversed this way of thinking, and ascribed anhedonia a causal role.