How to Use anhedonia in a Sentence

anhedonia

noun
  • At my worst, there was utter loneliness and anhedonia.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But the markets’ resiliency over the past month indicates a more all-encompassing anhedonia.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
  • But others report side effects like full-body itchiness, intense anxiety, or anhedonia.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The risk of gastroparesis, hair loss, rapid muscle degeneration, tooth loss, anhedonia, and vision loss are dismissed as acceptable trade-offs in the war against fat.
    — Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • She was prescribed oxycodone, and while on the medication, battled depression, anhedonia and suicidal ideation.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • People with lifelong musical anhedonia, which Weiss turned out to have, easily recognize music.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But studies of musical anhedonia also had a broader significance.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
  • What made people with specific musical anhedonia different from the two other groups was how the different regions in the brain communicated with each other.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Jessica seemed to be describing anhedonia, a struggle to experience pleasure.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Meanwhile, in people with musical anhedonia, MRI scans showed reduced response to music, but not for other pleasures.
    — Jay Kakade august 10, New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
  • For these patients, the effect was strongest for cognitive-affective and anhedonia – so, emotional and motivational – symptoms.
    — Paul McClure 09, New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Cleveland Clinic describes anhedonia as the inability to experience joy or pleasure, often showing up as numbness or reduced interest in things once enjoyed.
    — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation and its many imitators treat the instability and anhedonia of women as a source of self-deprecating comedy and little else.
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • And a small group of patients reported experiencing something called anhedonia, nicknamed ozempic personality.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • Cora Engelbrecht reports » More Top Stories A rare condition known as musical anhedonia leaves some people unable to enjoy music.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The co-author of the study, Josep Marco-Pallarés, says that musical anhedonia is caused by a poor connection between the brain's auditory network and its reward circuit, rather than any particular dysfunction.
    — Jay Kakade august 10, New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
  • One of the first researchers to study musical anhedonia, Robert Zatorre, a cognitive neuroscientist at McGill University, knew how powerful that release could be.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Reduced dopamine activity is commonly seen in people suffering from major depressive disorder, particularly in cases involving anhedonia, a condition marked by the inability to feel pleasure even when mood symptoms improve.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Advertisement On social media, people describe suffering from a range of side effects after experimenting with unapproved peptides, including migraines, weakness, depression, nausea and vomiting, and anhedonia, a condition in which people stop being able to experience joy or pleasure.
    — Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 24 Feb. 2026

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