different between pleasure vs anhedonia

English

Etymology

From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin place? (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh?-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pl???/
• (General American) enPR: pl?zh??r, IPA^(key): /?pl???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Hyphenation: pleas?ure

Noun

pleasure (countable and uncountable, plural pleasures)

1. (uncountable) A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.

   Synonyms: delight, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, satisfaction

   Antonyms: displeasure, pain
2. (countable) A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.

   Synonyms: delight, joy

   • Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure
3. (uncountable) One's preference.

   Synonyms: desire, fancy, want, will, wish

4. (formal, uncountable) The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.

   Synonym: discretion

   • He will do his pleasure on Babylon.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

pleasure

1. pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure"

Verb

pleasure (third-person singular simple present pleasures, present participle pleasuring, simple past and past participle pleasured)

1. (transitive) To give or afford pleasure to.

   Synonyms: please, gratify
2. (transitive) To give sexual pleasure to.

3. (intransitive, dated) To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.

Translations

Related terms

• displeasure
• please
• pleasant

Further reading

• pleasure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pleasure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• serpulae

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.