abuliaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈb(j)uː.lɪə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈbu.li.ə/, [əˈbu.ljə]
• 韻: -uːliə

名詞

abulia (countable and uncountable, plural abulias)

1. (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.

派生語

参照

アナグラム

• Labiau

名詞

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.

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.