Loss of the capacity to experience pleasure. The inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences. Anhedonia is a core clinical feature of depression, schizophrenia, and some other mental illnesses. An anhedonic mother finds no joy from playing with her baby. An anhedonic football fan is not excited when his team wins. An anhedonic [..]

"inability to feel pleasure," 1897, from French anhédonie, coined 1896 by French psychologist Theodule Ribot (1839-1916) as an opposite to analgesia, from Greek an-, privative prefix (see an [..]

Failure to enjoy positive emotional experiences

n. an overall lack of pleasure in previously enjoyed activities. Common to both schizophrenia and depression, it forms one of the criteria required to diagnoses a depressive disorder. Also known as ah [..]

Anhedonia is a condition marked by a loss of pleasure and enjoyment from life and activities that are normally enjoyed. Someone experiencing anhedonia would derive no pleasure from typically enjoyable [..]

(n) an inability to experience pleasure

Anhedonia is a loss of pleasure in activities that where once pleasurable.

Inability to experience Pleasure due to impairment or dysfunction of normal psychological and neurobiological mechanisms. It is a symptom of many Psychotic Disorders (e.g., Depressive Disorder, Major; [..]

  Lack of ability to feel pleasure.

Absence of pleasure from the performance of acts that would ordinarily be pleasurable. Origin: G. An-priv. + hedone, pleasure (05 Mar 2000)

lack of pleasure in doing or experiencing something, or doing it only as an obligation, duty, or drudgery.