aboulia
[uh-boo-lee-uh]
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noun
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Contemporary Examples of aboulia
Then coffee, shower, indecision, efforts at writing and reading followed by aboulia.
Historical Examples of aboulia
Except in extreme pathological cases (and in epistemology), complete skepticism and aboulia do not occur.
Creative IntelligenceJohn Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
Hence her “aboulia,” hence the “somebody else acting in me,” hence the refusal to take food.
Adventurings in the PsychicalH. Addington Bruce
But, in contrast with this, there is a more grave defect called "general" Aboulia.
The Story of the MindJames Mark Baldwin
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 TreatmentHenry Meigne
aboulia
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aboulia
[ə-bōō′lē-ə, ə-byōō′-]
n.
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