Sometimes it is mere passive joylessness and dreariness, discouragement, dejection, lack of taste and zest and spring. Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition.
The inability to gain pleasure from ordinary or habitual pleasurable experiences
The inability to experience pleasure In major depression, anhedonia is commonly noted as loss of pleasure in activities or experiences deemed as pleasurable or enjoyable by the client prior to the onset of the depressed episode
anhedonia
Hyphenation
an·he·do·ni·a
Pronunciation
Etymology
() From French anhédonie (coined by Ribot, 1896), from Ancient Greek ἀν- + ἡδονή (“pleasure”).