To Beekeeper: I also have a PhD in quantum physics and am working on a cure for abulia, for which I expect a Nobel Prize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video Blog: Barrel Cooling Done Right] Reference

Svevo's subject is the weakness of the will, or abulia, and how a dreamy nature has little chance up against the temptations set out by the amazing and obdurate reality of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humor in Hopelessness] Reference

Perhaps with H.R. 3962 we have an opportunity to heal ourselves of this abulia by not allowing a fraction of the 13% of abortions that are covered by private insurance to keep us from coming out of the Dark Ages and passing H.R. 3962 for a national health care system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanessa Carmichael: And Once Again, It's Abortion] Reference

So they show a condition of perfect 'abulia,' or inability to will or act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference

Imagination, and abulia, 11; and foresight, 284; anthropocentric, 10; basis of the cosmic process, 75.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

When a subject is thrown into a trance, I may expect the hypnotic phenomena known to me: lethargy, abulia, anæsthesia, analgesia, catalepsy, and every kind of susceptibility to suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fruits of Culture] Reference

Their combination of driver abulia and hysteria and deadpan OnStar dispatchers - Sorry you swallowed a bee today, Ma'am - make them cherished burlesque moments on an otherwise bleak landscape for many radio listeners.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Its symptoms, examined like rare gems, are virtually indistinguishable from one another: 'despair' — 'malaise' — 'strangeness' — 'dissociation' — 'ambivalence' — 'self-loathing' — 'self-revulsion' — 'anxiety' — 'abulia' — 'low-level autism.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangling Men] Reference

A trance, I may expect the hypnotic phenomena known to me: lethargy, abulia, anaesthesia, analgesia, catalepsy, and every kind of susceptibility to suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redemption and two other plays] Reference

This step has been taken by others, in part by Janet, who, from 1889 onward, has not only insisted that the emotions stand in the first line among the causes of hysteria, but has also pointed out some portion of the mechanism of this process; thus, he saw the significance of the fact, already recognized, that strong emotions tend to produce anæsthesia and to lead to a condition of mental disaggregation, favorable to abulia, or abolition of will-power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism] Reference