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anedonia

Portuguese, noun/a.ne.doˈni.ɐ/

anedonia is spelled A-N-E-D-O-N-I-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written Portuguese, the 178,247th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anedonia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “incapacidade de sentir prazer”.

What does anedonia mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineanhedonia (inability to feel pleasure)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. incapacidade de sentir prazer

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

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

Forms of anedonia

  • anedonias plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce anedonia?

  • Brazil /a.ne.doˈni.ɐ/
  • Portugal /ɐ.nɨ.duˈni.ɐ/
  • Portugal [ɐ.nɨ.ðuˈni.ɐ]

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

English words that translate to anedonia

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

How common is anedonia in Portuguese?

anedonia appears about once in every 39 million words in written Portuguese.

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

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