Anhedonic

Quick meaning: Anhedonic is an adjective meaning (psychiatry, also figuratively) Showing anhedonia; having no capacity to feel pleasure.

Meaning

(psychiatry, also figuratively) Showing anhedonia; having no capacity to feel pleasure.

More Meanings

1. (psychiatry) A person who has anhedonia.

Example Sentences

Longing, officious, anhedonic, pleading. Anna tried to make a list of every mood she'd ever been in but ran out of words before even half of her feelings were named.

The anhedonic depressed child creates special problems. He or she is bored most of the time, as he or she does not derive normal levels of pleasure from things, and the breadth of pleasurable events is rduced. The anhedonic youngster seems just to go through the motions of treatment.

Briefly, the anhedonic syndrome is manifested, first, by the disappearance or impairment of the appetite for food and drink and by failure to experience the corresponding satisfactions. [...] Thirdly, the appetite or desire for rest and the satisfaction of recuperation are also involved in the anhedonic syndrome.

Students are aware that if they don't attend for weeks on end, and/or they don't produce any work, they will not face meaningful sanction. They typically respond to this freedom not by pursuing projects but by falling into hedonic (or anhedonic) lassitude: the soft narcosis, the comfort food oblivion of Playstation,^([sic]) all-night TV and marijuana.

Word Forms

• anhedonics

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include affectionless, apathetic, pleasureless, analgesic, dedolent, senseless.

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