abulia

• aboulia

From New Latin abūlia, from Ancient Greek ἀβουλία (aboulía, “irresolution”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + βουλή (boulḗ, “will”).^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈb(j)uː.lɪə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbu.li.ə/, [əˈbu.ljə]
• Rhymes: -uːliə

abulia (countable and uncountable, plural abulias)

2. (psychiatry) Absence of willpower or decisiveness, especially as a symptom of mental illness. [from 19th c.]
   • 1969, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman:

     He felt without volition, plunged into a state of aboulia.

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     His virginal modesty is a modern abulia.

• Labiau

From Ancient Greek ἀβουλία (aboulía, “irresolution”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + βουλή (boulḗ, “will”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑbuliɑ/, [ˈɑ̝buˌliɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): a‧bu‧li‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): abu‧lia

abulia

2. Synonyms: tahdottomuus, (rare) tahdonheikkous

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀβουλία (aboulía).

• Rhymes: -ia

• IPA^(key): /a.buˈli.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: a‧bu‧lì‧a

abulia f (plural abulie)

1. (psychiatry) abulia
2. apathy, idleness

• abulico

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀβουλία (aboulía).

abūlia f sg (genitive abūliae); first declension

1. (New Latin, psychiatry) abulia
   • 1841, Johann Christian August Heinroth, Meletemata psychiatrica II. De formis amentiae, page 11:

     Qui contra melancholia affecti sunt, et paranoia fixa et abulia, in his contraria ratio habenda est: summa nimirum lenitas, et affabilitas, et amicabilitas iis adhibenda.

     As for those who are affected by melancholia, and fixed paranoia and abulia, the contrary method is to be employed in these cases: the greatest gentleness, and affability, and amiableness should of course be applied to them.

First-declension noun, singular only.

• abulja (pre-reform orthography (1936))

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀβουλία (aboulía).^[1][2] First attested in 1842.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /aˈbu.lja/

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• Rhymes: -ulja
• Syllabification: a‧bu‧lia

abulia f

1. (psychiatry) abulia

• abulia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “abulja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 4
• abulia in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Learned borrowing from French aboulie, from Ancient Greek ἀβουλία (aboulía). First attested in 1883.^[1]

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧bu‧li‧a

abulia f (uncountable)

1. (psychiatry) abulia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀβουλία (aboulía).

• IPA^(key): /aˈbulja/ [aˈβ̞u.lja]
• Rhymes: -ulja
• Syllabification: a‧bu‧lia

abulia f (plural abulias)

1. (psychiatry) abulia

• “abulia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024