anhedonic








noun Psychology.

  1. lack of pleasure or of the capacity to experience it.
n.

“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).

n.

  1. Absence of pleasure from the performance of acts that would normally be pleasurable.
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