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n. - A loss of will power.

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  • Of course, for accuracy's sake, I should add that Eliot later decided it wasn't neurasthenia at all; rather, he concluded, he'd been hit with "aboulia" from the French,...
  • Gussy, the tickler's already eliminated absenteeism, alcoholism and aboulia in numerous urban areas -- and that's just one letter of the alphabet!
  • The dissimilarity of terms and resemblances of ideas has another illustration in the reference to energy and the will; here it is clearly pointed out that the apparent...
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