Example Sentences

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His mental health changed for the worse, and he started to feel numb and anhedonic — things that used to make him happy no longer did.

From Salon • May 18, 2025

Glum, anhedonic Barry wants to use his acting classes to access the parts of himself he’d long repressed, but he’s unwilling to channel the darkness within, or even confront how deep inside him it reaches.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2019

Like an anhedonic “Hamlet 2,” this swiftly canceled NBC series centered on a teacher nudging his charges toward material they might not be ready for.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2018

Plus, in “Why Love Now” he has a worthy target in his crosshairs, a subspecies of anhedonic alt-bro crowding the sidewalks of “up-and-coming” neighborhoods.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2017

I suspect also that the haircloth shirt and the sackcloth and ashes of the anhedonic hermit were painful methods of seeking excitement.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham