abulia
noun
a symptom of mental disorder involving impairment or loss of volition.
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Thus the child who is weak of will, who is "hypobulic" or "abulic," will readily adapt himself to a school where all the children are kept seated and motionless, listening, or pretending to listen.
From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori