avolition
C2CEFR level
94/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A marked reduction in the motivation to initiate and sustain purposeful, goal-directed activity, recognised as a negative symptom of schizophrenia.
His avolition was so profound that he would sit unwashed for days, unable to muster the drive to attend even to basic self-care.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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