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Meaning of "anhedonia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANHEDONIA

anhedonia  [ˌænhɪˈdəʊnɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANHEDONIA

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Anhedonia is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ANHEDONIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Anhedonia

In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia is defined as the inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, e.g. exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions. While earlier definitions of anhedonia emphasized pleasurable experience, more recent models have highlighted the need to consider different aspects of enjoyable behavior, such as motivation or desire to engage in an activity, as compared to the level of enjoyment of the activity itself. According to William James the term was coined by Théodule-Armand Ribot. One can distinguish many kinds of pathological depression. Sometimes it is mere passive joylessness and dreariness, discouragement, dejection, lack of taste and zest and spring. Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition. "The state of anhedonia, if I may coin a new word to pair off with analgesia," he writes, "has been very little studied, but it exists." Anhedonia can be a characteristic of mental disorders including mood disorders, schizoaffective disorder, schizoid personality disorder and schizophrenia.

Definition of anhedonia in the English dictionary

The definition of anhedonia in the dictionary is the inability to feel or experience pleasure.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANHEDONIA


Amazonia
æməˈzəʊnɪə
ammonia
əˈməʊnɪə
Caledonia
ˌkælɪˈdəʊnɪə
Catalonia
ˌkætəˈləʊnɪə
Cephalonia
ˌsɛfəˈləʊnɪə
Estonia
ɛˈstəʊnɪə
Franconia
fræŋˈkəʊnɪə
Ionia
aɪˈəʊnɪə
Laconia
ləˈkəʊnɪə
Livonia
lɪˈvəʊnɪə
Macedonia
ˌmæsɪˈdəʊnɪə
mahonia
məˈhəʊnɪə
Pannonia
pəˈnəʊnɪə
Patagonia
ˌpætəˈɡəʊnɪə
pneumonia
njuːˈməʊnɪə
rhizoctonia
ˌraɪzɒkˈtəʊnɪə
Snowdonia
snəʊˈdəʊnɪə
valonia
vəˈləʊnɪə
Washingtonia
ˌwɒʃɪŋˈtəʊnɪə
zirconia
zɜːˈkəʊnɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANHEDONIA

angustifoliate
angustirostrate
angwantibo
Anhalt
anharmonic
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anhedral
anhelation
anhidrosis
anhidrotic
anhinga
Anhui
anhungered
anhungred
Anhwei
anhydrase
anhydride
anhydrite
anhydrous

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANHEDONIA

atonia
begonia
bignonia
Bononia
boronia
bronchopneumonia
claytonia
clintonia
dysphonia
dystonia
escallonia
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
heliconia
houstonia
hypertonia
Konia
miltonia
myotonia
New Caledonia
sinfonia

Synonyms and antonyms of anhedonia in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «anhedonia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANHEDONIA

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快感缺乏
1,325 millions of speakers

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anhedonia
570 millions of speakers

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anhedonia
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anhedonia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انعدام التلذذ
280 millions of speakers

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ангедония
278 millions of speakers

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anedonia
270 millions of speakers

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anhedonia
260 millions of speakers

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anhédonie
220 millions of speakers

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Anhedonia
190 millions of speakers

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Anhedonie
180 millions of speakers

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快感消失
130 millions of speakers

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무 쾌감 증
85 millions of speakers

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Anhedonia
85 millions of speakers
vi

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anhedonia
80 millions of speakers

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anhedonia
75 millions of speakers

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Anhedonia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anhedoninin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

anedonia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

anhedonię
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ангедония
40 millions of speakers

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anhedonia
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ανηδονία
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

anhedonia
14 millions of speakers
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anhedoni
10 millions of speakers
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anhedoni
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Trends of use of anhedonia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANHEDONIA»

The term «anhedonia» is quite widely used and occupies the 53.813 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANHEDONIA» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANHEDONIA»

Discover the use of anhedonia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anhedonia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Thrilled to Death: How the Endless Pursuit of Pleasure Is ...
We are literally being thrilled to death. In this insightful book, Dr. Hart explores the stark rise in a phenomenon known as anhedonia, an inability to experience pleasure or happiness.
Archibald Hart, 2007
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Anhedonia
Colin O'Sullivan. he'd say. But Mrs. Cane? l remember her pushing both of us on the swings my father had erected years ago. We were only four or five l suppose. She was nice. So was her husband, Christopher. l hope we get caught you ...
Colin O'Sullivan, 2006
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Symptoms of Schizophrenia
AARON ETTENBERG INTRODUCTION The term anhedonia was first coined by the French psychologist Ribot (1897) to describe a pathological "insensitivity to pleasure." He applied the term to people who seemed unable to derive pleasure  ...
Charles G. Costello, 1993
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On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine
From the start, as we have seen, the anhedonia concept of depression had been promoted in SKF's marketing of amphetamine for psychiatry (Figure 28).15 Over time, anhedonia's status in thinking about depression advanced in step with ...
Nicolas Rasmussen, 2008
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Negative Symptom and Cognitive Deficit Treatment Response in ...
This conceptualization is supported by more recent research, which shows that patients with schizophrenia score higher on anhedonia scales than do control subjects (Brown et al. 1979; Chapman et al. 1976; C. G. Watson et al. 1970).
Richard S. E. Keefe, Joseph P. McEvoy, 2008
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Trends in Schizophrenia Research
(2000), for once, have been able to establish the independent nature of anhedonia, whereas Romney & Candido (2001) have shown, to the contrary, that anhedonia is related to blunted affect. The best evidence of the primary nature of  ...
Mary V. Lang, 2005
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Oxford Handbook of Personality Assessment
Correlations among the Chapman Physical and Social Anhedonia Scales and MMPI/ MMPI-2 anhedonia measures. RC2 Anhedonia Hedonic Capacity INTR Si Study 1 Physical Anhedonia .21 .26 .24 .26 .20 Social Anhedonia .25 .36 .34 .37  ...
James N. Butcher, 2009
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Emotions in Psychopathology: Theory and Research
Schizophrenics with blunted affect and depressed patients also reported greater physical anhedonia than did controls (Berenbaum & Oltmanns, 1992). Finally, Katsanis et al. (1990) found that there were no differences between first episode  ...
William F. Flack, James D. Laird, 1998
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Handbook of Reward and Decision Making
The term was coined by Ribot [80] (see William James's “The Sick Soul” for a discussion), who saw anhedonia as a decreased capacity for pleasure in a way that is analogous to the decreased capacity for feeling that is found in analgesia.
Jean-Claude Dreher, Leon Tremblay, 2009
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Positive and Negative Symptoms in Psychosis: Description, ...
Anhedonia on the other hand, appeared to be genetically influenced. No evidence of nongenetic familial influences were found regarding anhedonia. Several analyses were conducted in order to determine whether our finding that anhedonia ...
Philip D. Harvey, Elaine Walker, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANHEDONIA»

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Thus we conceptualize the AD scale as tapping into positive emotion and hedonic processing more generally, rather than anhedonia ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
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New Biomarker May Predict Suicide
... suicidal with respect to disease severity (P = .003), anhedonia (P = .012), and suicidality (P = .001), but not with respect to KP activation. «Medscape, Jun 15»
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14 Words For Sadness And Depression That Don't Exist In English
Anhedonia” is another useful English term for depressive symptoms, meaning the inability to get pleasure from activities you'd normally enjoy, ... «Bustle, Jun 15»
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Gay Marriage, Racism and Obamacare: The Challenge of Caring
Deictic relational responding, empathy and experiential avoidance as predictors of social anhedonia: Further contributions from relational ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
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Decreased brain response to reward anticipation may be a predictor …
Decreased activity in the ventral striatum was associated with anhedonia but not low mood, however, patients with both of these symptoms had ... «Healio, Jun 15»
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Understanding The Powerful Influence Media Has Over Your Teen's …
I have spoken regularly on the topic of media influence, including on the topic of anhedonia. In addition to speaking at conferences and ... «Christian Post, Jun 15»
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Therapeutic antidepressant potential of a conjugated siRNA …
(a and b) Short-term C-SERT-siRNA reversed the reduction of sucrose intake and preference in the corticosterone-induced anhedonia ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
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The Mind and Body Connection: The Correlation between Stress …
Eistenberger, N. L., Berkman, E. T., Inagaki, T. K., Rameson, L. T., Mashal, N. M., & Irwin, M. R. (2100) Inflammation-induced anhedonia: ... «Mad In America, Jun 15»
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Switching on happy memories 'perks up' stressed mice
... as not reacting when held by the tail, or no longer showing a preference for sweetened water (indicating a loss of pleasure, or "anhedonia"). «BBC News, Jun 15»
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Movie Review – 'Inside Out'
... of her Tinkerbell charm to Joy, and Phyllis Smith walks the fine line between low-key energy and gloomy anhedonia that Sadness demands. «mxdwn.com, Jun 15»

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