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Definition of abulia in English: abulia(also aboulia) noun əˈbuːlɪəəˈbuliə mass nounPsychiatry An absence of willpower or an inability to act decisively, a symptom of schizophrenia or other mental illness. Example sentencesExamples - We report 2 previously non-demented patients who developed acute confusional state, abulia, and moderate cognitive decline after the occurrence of an infarct in the capsular genu.
- Among the animal tests Skinner reported upon were some that induced abulia.
- This self should be free from mental and physical stigmata (suggestibility, amnesia, aboulia, anesthesia, etc.), which commonly characterize the disintegrated states making up multiple personality.
- Attempts to attribute Hamlet's general aboulia to less constitutional causes, such as grief due to the death of his father and the adultery of his mother, are similarly inefficacious, for psycho-pathology has clearly demonstrated that such grief is in itself quite inadequate as an explanation of this condition.
- This abulia is really getting to me, I can't figure it out.
Derivatives adjective əˈbuːlɪk Psychiatry There are the unstable whose existence is passed in starting enterprises and never finishing them; there are the dreamers, the erratic and the aboulic with their plans that never materialize; there are those whose judgment is chronically false and who are invariably wrong in their estimates of men and events. Example sentencesExamples - Patients with large medial frontal lesions extending to the most anterior frontal pole sometimes become abulic (apathetic, inattentive, and markedly slow to respond).
- This produces Para paresis; with weakness more marked peripherally, urinary incontinence and aboulic and aphasic symptoms.
- Zeno's and Emilio's aboulic personalities, their incapability of pursuing and sustaining an active participation in life, reflect Svevo's tragic sensibility of life as a disaster and his meditation on vulnerability and death, filtered through the looking glass of bitter-sweet irony mixed with ineffective wisdom.
Origin Mid 19th century: coined from a-1 'without' + Greek boulē 'the will'. Definition of abulia in US English: abulia(also aboulia) nounəˈbuliəəˈbo͞olēə Psychiatry An absence of willpower or an inability to act decisively, as a symptom of mental illness. Example sentencesExamples - This abulia is really getting to me, I can't figure it out.
- Attempts to attribute Hamlet's general aboulia to less constitutional causes, such as grief due to the death of his father and the adultery of his mother, are similarly inefficacious, for psycho-pathology has clearly demonstrated that such grief is in itself quite inadequate as an explanation of this condition.
- We report 2 previously non-demented patients who developed acute confusional state, abulia, and moderate cognitive decline after the occurrence of an infarct in the capsular genu.
- This self should be free from mental and physical stigmata (suggestibility, amnesia, aboulia, anesthesia, etc.), which commonly characterize the disintegrated states making up multiple personality.
- Among the animal tests Skinner reported upon were some that induced abulia.
Origin Mid 19th century: coined from a- ‘without’ + Greek boulē ‘the will’. |