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n. - An inability to experience pleasure.

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  • Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition.
  • It's being looked at to help people with anhedonia, which is an inability to experience pleasure from certain activities.
  • Ironically, the act of using "anhedonia" in a sentence is one of the least anhedoniacal events imaginable.
  • If you can’t take pleasure in things that used to make you happy, it’s called anhedonia, and it’s a sign of serious depression.
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