Definition of Anhedonic

1. Adjective. showing anhedonia ¹

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Definition of Anhedonic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anhedonic

angustate
angustation
angustifoliate
angustifolious
angustimurate
angustiseptate
angwantibo
angwantibos
anhaline
anhaphia
anharmonic
anharmonicities
anharmonicity
anhedonia
anhedonias
anhedonic (current term)
anhedral
anhedrals
anhelation
anhele
anhelose
anhelous
anhemitonic
anhemitonic pentatonic scale
anhemitonic pentatonic scales
anhepatic
anhepatic jaundice
anhepatogenous jaundice
anhidrosis

Literary usage of Anhedonic

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

1. The Foundations of personality by Abraham Myerson (1921)
"I pass these interesting people by and turn to the opposite of the anhedonic group, the group that is hearty in tastes and appetites, easily pleased as a ..."

2. Cocaine Use in America: Epidemmiologic and Clinical Perspectives edited by Nicholas J. Kozel, Edgar H. Adams (1996)
"... to cocaine-using behavior: the desire for euphoria, the effort to avoid dysphoria, the self-treatment of depression, and the painful, anhedonic period. ..."

3. Individual Differences in the Behavioral Etiology of Drug Abuse edited by Harold W. Gordon, Meyer D. Glantz (1997)
"Typically, craving is used to describe two distinct states that often are not carefully distinguished: aversive craving associated with the anhedonic ..."

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