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aboulia

US/əˈbu.li.ə/

aboulia is the alternative spelling of abulia.

Meaning of abulia

Noun

abulia (countable and uncountable, plural abulias)

  1. Absence of willpower or decisiveness, especially as a symptom of mental illness.
    • He felt without volition, plunged into a state of aboulia.1969, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman

Forms of aboulia

pluralaboulias

Words formed from aboulia

Questions about aboulia

What is aboulia the alternative spelling of?
Aboulia is the alternative spelling of abulia.
How do you pronounce aboulia?
Aboulia is pronounced /əˈbu.li.ə/ (US).

Words near aboulia in the dictionary

  1. Aboud
  2. Abouds
  3. aboue
  4. abought
  5. Aboukir
  6. aboulia
  7. aboulias
  8. aboulic
  9. aboulomania
  10. abound
  11. abound in one's own sense

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aboulia (page history and authors); abulia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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