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anhedonia

Spanish, noun/aneˈdonja/

anhedonia is spelled A-N-H-E-D-O-N-I-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish, the 178,154th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anhedonia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Incapacidad clínica de experimentar placer frente a estímulos habitualmente satisfactorios”.

What does anhedonia mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineanhedonia (inability to feel pleasure)

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Incapacidad clínica de experimentar placer frente a estímulos habitualmente satisfactorios.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of anhedonia

  • anhedonias plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce anhedonia?

  • /aneˈdonja/
  • [a.neˈð̞o.nja]
  • [ãneˈð̞onja]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to anhedonia

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is anhedonia in Spanish?

anhedonia appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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