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Anhedonia meaning

The inability to feel pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, such as exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions.

Synonyms of Anhedonia

psychological state mental state

Related words

Other words often associated with Anhedonia or its synonyms:

condition status

Using Anhedonia

  • The main meaning on this page is: The inability to feel pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, such as exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions.
  • Useful related words include: psychological state, mental state.
  • In the example corpus, anhedonia often appears in combinations such as: and anhedonia.

Context around Anhedonia

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

target 1× physical 1× having 1× pleasure 1× unfortunately 1× apathy 1× mood 1×

Often after:

relates 1× predicts 1× anxiety 1× dysphoria 1× inability 1×

Sentence patterns with Anhedonia

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

adequately target anhedonia 1× depressed mood anhedonia and reduced 1× depression apathy anhedonia dysphoria and 1× irritability and anhedonia inability to 1× mechanisms of anhedonia in major 1× mood and anhedonia 1× mood or anhedonia 1× physical anhedonia relates to 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

consequently when the 1× geneva world health 1× icd 10 defines 1× one possible explanation 1× physical anhedonia relates 1× progress and challenges 1×

Common sentence endings:

adequately target anhedonia 1× altered locomotor activity 1× and behavioral disorders 1× depression treatment strategies 1× dysphoria and anxiety 1× major depressive disorder 1×

Words around Anhedonia

Just before it in the word index:

anharmonic 3 anhang 3 anhalter 2 anhalt 32 anh 19 angyan 2

Just after it in the word index:

anhedral 5 anhemitonic 2 anheuser 94 anhidrosis 2 anholt 4 anhui 17

Similar in corpus frequency:

aab 14 aamer 14 aave 14 abadan 14 abdelmadjid 14 abdulkarim 14

Corpus analysis for Anhedonia

  • In this selection, "anhedonia" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, target, physical, having, relates, predicts and anxiety stand out and add context to how "anhedonia" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include adequately target anhedonia and depressed mood anhedonia and reduced. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "anhedonia" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with anhedonia

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Research also shows that having anhedonia predicts of depression. (9 words)

Unfortunately, anhedonia often receives less attention in depression treatment strategies. (10 words)

Physical anhedonia relates to a loss of enjoyment of physical sensations. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

The categories for specifiers will be removed in DSM-5 and part A will add “or there are at least 3 symptoms of Major Depression of which one of the symptoms is depressed mood or anhedonia. (36 words)

ICD-10 defines three typical depressive symptoms (depressed mood, anhedonia, and reduced energy), two of which should be present to determine depressive disorder diagnosis. citation The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioral disorders. (34 words)

The study conducted on rats showed that animals tolerated the repeated low doses of psilocybin well and did not exhibit signs of reduced pleasure (anhedonia), anxiety, or altered locomotor activity. (30 words)

Example sentences (11)

One possible explanation for these low response rates is that current treatment approaches do not adequately target anhedonia.

Physical anhedonia relates to a loss of enjoyment of physical sensations.

Progress and challenges in research of the mechanisms of anhedonia in major depressive disorder.

Research also shows that having anhedonia predicts of depression.

The study conducted on rats showed that animals tolerated the repeated low doses of psilocybin well and did not exhibit signs of reduced pleasure (anhedonia), anxiety, or altered locomotor activity.

Unfortunately, anhedonia often receives less attention in depression treatment strategies.

The team calculated total GDS scores as well as scores for three clusters symptoms of depression: apathy-anhedonia, dysphoria, and anxiety.

Consequently, when the desires of this "voice" are not satiated, the addict experiences anxiety, depression, restlessness, irritability, and anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure).

Geneva: World Health Organization, 1992 According to DSM-IV-TR, there are two main depressive symptoms—depressed mood and anhedonia.

ICD-10 defines three typical depressive symptoms (depressed mood, anhedonia, and reduced energy), two of which should be present to determine depressive disorder diagnosis. citation The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioral disorders.

The categories for specifiers will be removed in DSM-5 and part A will add “or there are at least 3 symptoms of Major Depression of which one of the symptoms is depressed mood or anhedonia.

Common combinations with anhedonia

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "anhedonia" in a sentence?
An example: "One possible explanation for these low response rates is that current treatment approaches do not adequately target anhedonia." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "anhedonia" from authentic English texts.
What does "anhedonia" mean?
Anhedonia means: The inability to feel pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, such as exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions.
What are synonyms of "anhedonia"?
Common synonyms of "anhedonia" include: psychological state, mental state.
How many example sentences with "anhedonia" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "anhedonia", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.