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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ABULIA

New Latin, from Greek aboulia lack of resolution, from a-1 + boulē will.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ABULIA

abulia  [əˈbuːlɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ABULIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Abulia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ABULIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Aboulia

Aboulia or abulia, in neurology, refers to a lack of will or initiative and can be seen as a disorder of diminished motivation. Aboulia falls in the middle of the spectrum of diminished motivation, with apathy being less extreme and akinetic mutism being more extreme than aboulia. A patient with aboulia is unable to act or make decisions independently. It may range in severity from subtle to overwhelming. It is also known as Blocq's disease. Abulia was originally considered to be a disorder of the will.

Definition of abulia in the English dictionary

The definition of abulia in the dictionary is a pathological inability to take decisions.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ABULIA


aboulia
əˈbuːlɪə
acalculia
ˌækælˈkjuːlɪə
amelia
əˈmiːlɪə
aurelia
ɔːˈriːlɪə
bromelia
brəˈmiːlɪə
camellia
kəˈmiːlɪə
Delia
ˈdiːlɪə
dulia
ˈdjuːlɪə
dyscalculia
ˌdɪskælˈkjuːlɪə
earlier
ˈɜːlɪə
Elia
ˈiːlɪə
Karelia
kəˈriːlɪə
mycelia
maɪˈsiːlɪə
peculiar
pɪˈkjuːlɪə
Somalia
səʊˈmɑːlɪə
sterculia
stɜːˈkjuːlɪə
syringomyelia
səˌrɪŋɡəʊmaɪˈiːlɪə
telia
ˈtiːlɪə
thulia
ˈθjuːlɪə
unrulier
ʌnˈruːlɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ABULIA

abubble
abuilding
Abuja
Abukir Bay
abulic
abuna
abundance
abundancy
abundant
abundantly
aburst
abusable
abusage
abuse
abuser
abusion
abusive
abusively
abusiveness
abut

WORDS THAT END LIKE ABULIA

Anglia
Apulia
Australia
Cecilia
dahlia
folia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
hyperdulia
Italia
magnolia
memorabilia
Mongolia
Pietas Julia
Puglia
saintpaulia
Sicilia
South Australia
Thalia
Venezia Giulia
Western Australia

Synonyms and antonyms of abulia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «abulia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ABULIA

Find out the translation of abulia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of abulia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «abulia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

abulia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

abulia
570 millions of speakers

English

abulia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

abulia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فقد الإرادة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

абулия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

abulia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

abulia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

abulia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Abulia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abulia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

abulia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

abulia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Abulia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

abulia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோழமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Abulia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

abulia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

abulia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

abulia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

абулія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

abulia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αβουλία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

abulia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Abulia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

abulia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of abulia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ABULIA»

The term «abulia» is regularly used and occupies the 83.475 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ABULIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about abulia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABULIA»

Discover the use of abulia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to abulia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of Neurological Signs
Abulia A disorder exclusive to childhood and associated with 3 Hz spike and slow wave EEG abnormalities. Absence epilepsy may be confused with a more obvious distancing, 'trancelike' state, or 'glazing over', possibly with associated ...
A.J. Larner, 2010
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Stroke Syndromes
Akinetic mutism, abulia, and other psychomotor disorders Transient loss of consciousness has been described in patients with ACA-territory infarctions, but it is uncommon; sustained unresponsiveness most often indicates abulia or akinetic ...
Julien Bogousslavsky, Louis R. Caplan, 2001
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Straight Talk on Stuttering: Information, Encouragement, and ...
Finally, we have the strangest of all observable behaviors of stuttering, abulia. Abulia occurs only in very severe stutterers and typically only in those who produce silent postponements or prolonged closures. Abulia has been described as the ...
Lloyd M. Hulit, 2004
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The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of ...
Abulia C.M. Fisher (1984) resurrected the old term abulia (Ber- rios and Gili 1995 )—etymologically, a lack of will—to describe loss of spontaneity due to cerebral disease, of which the extreme case is akinetic mutism. In a less severe form of ...
Stuart C. Yudofsky, Robert E. Hales, 2008
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The Neuropsychology of Emotion
For example, Fisher (1983) described the disorder abulia as impaired spontaneity in action and speech against a background of normal intellectual content, reduced range of movement, mental slowness, decreased attention in the presence of ...
Joan C. Borod Professor of Psychology and Faculty Member of the Neuropsychology Doctoral Subprogram Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2000
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Stroke: Clinical manifestations and pathogenesis
Bilateral lesions involving the bilateral cingulated gyrus, medial frontal lobe, supplementary motor area (SMA), and the caudate nucleus may produce persistent abulia. Unilateral ACA lesions produce transient abulia, lasting from a few days to ...
‎2009
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Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong: Science, Class, and the ...
century, "abulia underwent the greatest scrutiny by French psychologists."2 Though he did not use the term, the Frenchman Jean-Etienne Esquirol (1772- 1840) made important foundational contributions in this field. The Belgian Joseph  ...
Cyrus Schayegh, 2009
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Lexicon of Psychiatry, Neurology, and the Neurosciences
Psychiatr Ann 1997;27:30-33). apathy and abulia Part of a continuum of motivation impairment, with abulia occurring in the more severely impaired patients. The gross brain lesions that cause abulia may cause apathy when they are smaller ...
Frank J. Ayd, 2000
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Principles of Frontal Lobe Function
However, instances of euphoria and depression/apathy (abulia) have been reported (Scott et al., 1998; Bejjani et al., 1999; Kumar et al., 1999; Trépanier et al ., 2000; Pollak, personal communication). Functional imaging studies have shown ...
Donald T. Stuss Reva James Leeds Chair in Neuroscience and Research Leadership, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Robert T. Knight Evan Rauch Professor of Neuroscience and Director, Department of Psychology University of California Berkeley, 2002
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An Architectural Approach to Level Design
Abulia may be seen with bilateral or unilateral infarction or hemorrhage of various subcortical structures including the caudate nucleus (Bhatia and Marsden 1994; Caplan et al. 1990; Kumral et al. 1999; Mendez et al. 1989), globus pallidus ...
Christopher W. Totten, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABULIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term abulia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lucrecia Martel: “Quedé atrapada en su mundo”
... y que como no llega se zambulle en la persecución de un bandido por tierras de indios, puede emparentarse con el clima de abulia que vive ... «Clarín.com, Jun 15»
2
Eugène Ionesco y el asesino
... la abulia de los funcionarios municipales y la manipulación de los políticos, Berenguer se compromete hasta sus últimas consecuencias en ... «La Nación Costa Rica, Jun 15»
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27 de Junio de 2015 a la(s) 6:0 - Augusto Manzanal Ciancaglini
En el contexto de la globalización, la abulia que genera esta estrategia es una garantía de inestabilidad que los mercados castigan en ... «La Prensa Gráfica, Jun 15»
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Latest from Iran
They are trying to create amnesia, amnesia leads to apathy, and apathy leads to abulia, the paralysis of the mind. These are the three tactics ... «Press TV, May 15»
5
L'Europa come l'Impero romano: l'implosione per il calo delle culle
... ammonitori fra le belle pagine di De Jaeghere, costantemente tenendo di mira il presente, la nostra abulia, il nostro cedimento interiore. «Il Foglio, Mar 15»
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Ucrania: el pantanal de las decisiones
... ha bautizado como “la paciencia estratégica” la cual parece ser una nueva apelación para lo que se conoce como abulia o indecisión. «El Nacional.com, Feb 15»
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Una costa oeste súper dark
Porque no se trata solamente de mostrar la abulia y la tristeza de los millonarios de la industria, como en Somewhere , de Sofia Coppola, por ... «Revista Ñ, Nov 14»
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Comparativa: Citroën DS4 2.0 HDI vs Mazda 3 2.2D y Seat León 2.0 …
La posesión de un motor turbodiésel bajo el capó no implica abulia o falta de carácter en un modelo compacto cuando hablamos de potencias ... «Autopista.es, Apr 14»
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Sancti Spiritus, the Most Medieval of the First Cuban Villages
... on more than one occasion María Antonieta Jiménez Margolles, historian of the city, in order to justify the apparent abulia present over here. «Escambray, Apr 14»
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What does anxiety mean?
So melancholy, grief, abulia, Weltschmerz, loss of libido, thoughts of suicide, and, presumably, a host of other symptoms associated with ... «New Yorker, Jan 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Abulia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/abulia>. Apr 2024 ».
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