Entry: anhedonia (n.)
In context: "One kind is low-grade and sometimes gets called anhedonia, or simple melancholy."
Definition: From fn. 280:
"Anhedonia was apparently coined by Ribot, a Continental Frenchman, who in his 19th-century, Psychologie des Sentiments says he means it to denote the psychoequivalent of analgesia, which is the neurologic suppression of pain."
Other:
SNOOT score: 3
Page: 692
Source: Infinite Jest
Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
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