anhedonic
- a word derived from anhedonia.
Example Sentences
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The wealth of the Duttons is tangible and desirable — expressed in breathtaking mountains and blue sky — in a way that the anhedonic luxury of “Succession,” intentionally, is not.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022
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
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
A longstanding favourite with hip-hop and R&B artists, he was a major influence on Kanye West’s anhedonic 808s & Heartbreak album.
From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2016
Many a hermit, I fancy, who found the sensual and ambitious pleasure of life intolerable, who sought to fly from crowds to the deserts, was anhedonic but he called it renunciation.
From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham
