anhedonia

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Anhedonia is the technical term for absence of pleasure.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2021

Anhedonia, the inability to feel pleasure, can afflict both men and women with cancer.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2018

Anhedonia was the working title of Woody Allen’s movie Annie Hall, which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture.

From Scientific American • Dec. 6, 2012

The fact that the movie was originally to be entitled Anhedonia, that is, the clinical inability to experience happiness, has become part of its legend, especially because the film has given everyone so much happiness.

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2010

It is no wonder that his original title for Annie Hall was Anhedonia, a psychoanalytic term that means "incapable of experiencing pleasure."

From Time Magazine Archive