anhedonian.
Psychiatry.
Inability to feel pleasure.
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rivalry1844
psychic blindness1886
agnosia1897
anhedonia1897
astereognosis1900
simultanagnosia1936
prosopagnosia1950
1897 tr. T. A. Ribot Psychol. of Emotions iii. 53 Anhedonia (if I may coin a counter-designation to analgesia) has been very little studied..but there are cases of an insensibility relating to pleasure.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience vi. 145 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.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience vi. 146 Prolonged seasickness will..produce a temporary condition of anhedonia.
1960 L. E. Hinsie & R. J. Campbell Psychiatric Dict. (ed. 3) 44/1 Anhedonia..is seen often in schizophrenic patients.
Draft additions 1997
anheˈdonic adj. having little or no capacity to feel pleasure.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > impairment of mental powers > impaired perception
agnosic1907
agnostic1941
anhedonic1961
1961 in Webster
1972 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 80 44/1 By comparison to their less anhedonic counterparts, highly anhedonic Ss should be less responsive to rewards than to punishments.
1981 N.Y. Times 12 Sept. i. 13/5 The playwright transforms his despair into whimsical..comedy. His anhedonic characters are always coming up with new ways to express their misery.
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