Definition of Aboulic

1. Adjective. Suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions.

Exact synonyms: Abulic
Similar to: Neurotic, Psychoneurotic
Derivative terms: Aboulia, Abulia

Definition of Aboulic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to aboulia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aboulic

1. aboulia [adj] - See also: aboulia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aboulic

abortogenic
abortogenics
abortorium
aborts
abortuaries
abortuary
abortus
abortus bacillus
abortus fever
abortuses
abos
aboue
abought
aboulia
aboulias
aboulic (current term)
aboulomania
abound
abound in
abound with
aboundance
aboundances
aboundant
aboundaunce
abounded
aboundeth
abounding
aboundingly
abounds
about

Literary usage of Aboulic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Morals: A Treatise on the Psycho-sociological Bases of Ethics by Guillaume L. Duprat, William John Greenstreet (1903)
"When overcome by excitement, he cannot regain his self-control; he is aboulic, he cannot resist; and He is violent because he is ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"They include paralyses due to lesions of the pyramidal tract and the hysterical or so-called aboulic paralyses. References Dejerine (/.). ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1900)
"ation of so-called aboulic insanity or as I prefer to call it, insanity from deficient will. The condition is closely allied to the insanity of indecision ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1901)
"ation of so-called aboulic insanity or as I prefer to call it. insanity from deficient will. The condition is closely allied to the insanity of indecision ..."

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