different between anhedonia vs apathy

English

Etymology

From French anhédonie (coined by Ribot, 1896), from Ancient Greek ??- (an-) + ????? (h?don?, “pleasure”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?an.h??d??.n??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æn.hi?do?.ni.?/

Noun

anhedonia (usually uncountable, plural anhedonias)

1. (medicine, psychiatry) The inability to feel pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, such as exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 123:

     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.

Derived terms

• anhedonic
• anhedonism

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nhedoni?/, [??nhe??do?ni?]
• Rhymes: -oni?
• Syllabification: an?he?do?ni?a

Noun

anhedonia

1. (medicine, psychiatry) anhedonia

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an.x??d?.?a/

Noun

anhedonia f

1. (medicine, psychiatry) anhedonia

Declension

Further reading

• anhedonia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From French anhédonie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ane?donja/, [ãn.e?ð?o.nja]

Noun

anhedonia f (plural anhedonias)

1. (medicine, psychiatry) anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure)

Further reading

• “anhedonia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From French apathie, from Latin apath?a, from Ancient Greek ??????? (apátheia, “impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion”), from ?????? (apath?s, “not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ????? (páthos, “anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.p?.?i/

Noun

apathy (usually uncountable, plural apathies)

1. Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).

   Synonyms: indifference, neutrality

   Antonyms: empathy, sympathy

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