Aboulia

Word ABOULIA
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Definitions and meanings of "Aboulia"

What do we mean by aboulia?

Same as abulia. noun

Alternative spelling of abulia. noun

A loss of will power noun

Absence of willpower or decisiveness, especially as a symptom of mental illness.

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The word "aboulia" in example sentences

Of course, for accuracy's sake, I should add that Eliot later decided it wasn't neurasthenia at all; rather, he concluded, he'd been hit with "aboulia" from the French, aboulie. ❋ Frank Wilson (2008)

Gussy, the tickler's already eliminated absenteeism, alcoholism and aboulia in numerous urban areas -- and that's just one letter of the alphabet! ❋ Fritz Leiber (1951)

The dissimilarity of terms and resemblances of ideas has another illustration in the reference to energy and the will; here it is clearly pointed out that the apparent aboulia of the "neurasthenic" is not a lack, but an unfruitful directing of the will while the Viennese school imply the same idea in their doctrine of sublimation. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The latter etymology is confirmed by the words boulesthai, boule, aboulia, which all have to do with shooting (bole): and similarly oiesis is nothing but the movement ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)

{Willessness (aboulia or paralysis of will) {often found in psychasthenia; and in depressive ❋ Mary F. Porter (N/A)

Neurologist_, 1891; ibid., 1902, p. 263), that in the disturbance of emotional balance caused by grief the primitive instincts become peculiarly apt to respond to stimulus, and that in the aboulia of grief the mind is specially liable to become the prey to obsessions. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

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