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  2. Apathy - Wikipedia

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    Apathy can also be defined as a person's lack of goal orientation. [2] Apathy falls in the less extreme spectrum of diminished motivation, with abulia in the middle and akinetic mutism being more extreme than both apathy and abulia. [3] The apathetic may lack a sense of purpose, worth, or meaning in their life.

  3. Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.

  4. Apatheia - Wikipedia

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    Apatheia and asceticism are often times connected to each other. It is believed that apatheia is the precondition for beginning the pursuit of an intimate and direct knowledge of God that initiates us into sanctity while asceticism is the direct seeking of this knowledge.

  5. Sloth (deadly sin) - Wikipedia

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    Acedia in The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, by Hieronymus Bosch.. Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins in Catholic teachings. It is the most difficult sin to define and credit as sin, since it refers to an assortment of ideas, dating from antiquity and including mental, spiritual, pathological, and conditional states. [1]

  6. Apatheism - Wikipedia

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    Apatheism (/ ˌ æ p ə ˈ θ iː ɪ z əm /; a portmanteau of apathy and theism) is the attitude of apathy toward the existence or non-existence of God(s).It is more of an attitude rather than a belief, claim, or belief system.

  7. Anhedonia - Wikipedia

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    Anhedonia is a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure. [1] While earlier definitions emphasized the inability to experience pleasure, anhedonia is currently used by researchers to refer to reduced motivation, reduced anticipatory pleasure (wanting), reduced consummatory pleasure (liking), and deficits in reinforcement learning.

  8. What does 'down bad' mean? The phrase has a few ... - AOL

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    The phrase "down bad" has taken on a life of its own on social media. People seem to be using it in a myriad of ways, but the spirit of the term is to yearn. Urban Dictionary defines "down bad" as ...

  9. Disorders of diminished motivation - Wikipedia

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    Often however, a spectrum of DDM is defined encompassing apathy, abulia, and akinetic mutism, with apathy being the mildest form and akinetic mutism being the most severe or extreme form. [1] [2] [3] Akinetic mutism involves alertness but absence of movement and speech due to profound lack of will.