noun Psychology.
- lack of pleasure or of the capacity to experience it.
“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.
- Absence of pleasure from the performance of acts that would normally be pleasurable.