aboulia

[ uh-boo-lee-uh ]

/ əˈbu li ə /

noun

abulia.

Nearby words

Related formsa·bou·lic, adjective

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Examples from the Web for aboulia

Then coffee, shower, indecision, efforts at writing and reading followed by aboulia.
Charles Baxter: How I Write|Noah Charney|August 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But, in contrast with this, there is a more grave defect called "general" Aboulia.
The Story of the Mind|James Mark Baldwin
Hence her “aboulia,” hence the “somebody else acting in me,” hence the refusal to take food.
Adventurings in the Psychical|H. Addington Bruce
Except in extreme pathological cases (and in epistemology), complete skepticism and aboulia do not occur.
Creative Intelligence|John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen

If a degenerate may suffer from one or other variety of aboulia, or phobia, or obsession, the man with tic is a degenerate too.
Tics and Their Treatment|Henry Meigne

British Dictionary definitions for aboulia

aboulia

/ (əˈbuːlɪə, -ˈbjuː-) /

noun

a variant spelling of abulia

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Medicine definitions for aboulia

aboulia

[ ə-bōō′lē-ə, ə-byōō′- ]

n.

Variant ofabulia