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Abulia

Definition: Abulia

Abulia

Noun

1. A loss of will power.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Abulia

DomainDefinitions

Medicine

2)impairment or loss of will power. Source: European Union. (references)
 Impairment or loss of will power. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonym: Abulia

Synonym: aboulia (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Abulia

English words defined with "abulia": aboulic, abulic. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Abulia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (abulia), Portuguese (apathy), Spanish (abulia).

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Commercial Usage: Abulia

DomainTitle

Music

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Abulia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

abulia

8
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Modern Translations: Abulia

Language Translations for "abulia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏فقدان الإرادة. (various references)

   

Danish

  

abuli (abulomania), rådvildhed (bewilderment), ophævet viljesliv. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

abulie (abulomania, will-lessness), aboulomania (abulomania), aboulia (abulomania), willoosheid (will-lessness), verslagenheid (alarm, bewilderment, consternation), verlegenheid (abashment, bashfulness, bewilderment, embarrassment, perplexity, shyness, timidity), ontreddering (bewilderment). (various references)

   

French

  

abulia, aboulie (abulomania), faiblesse de volonté, désarroi. (various references)

   

German

  

Aspontaneitaet, Abulie (abulomania), Abulia (abulomania), Willensschwäche (debilitation of the will, weak will), Ratlosigkeit (bewilderment, cluelessness, helplessness, perplexity). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αβουλησία (aboulia, bewilderment), αβουλία (aboulia, bewilderment). (various references)

   

Italian

  

abulomania (abulomania), abulia (abulomania, debilitation of the will), ipobulia, confusione (abashment, ado, bedlam, bewilderment, carry on, chaos, clutter, commotion, confounding, confusion, disorder, disturbance, embarrassment, fuss, haze, hotchpotch, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, muddle, noise, pother, puzzledom, shambles, stir). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abuliaay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

abulia (apathy, bewilderment), abolia (abulomania). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

абулия. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

abulia. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

абулія. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Abulia

Derivations

Words beginning with "abulia": abulias. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Abulia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-l-u"

-1 letter: labia.

-2 letters: alba, baal, bail.

-3 letters: aal, aba, ail, ala, alb, baa, bal, lab, lib.

-4 letters: aa, ab, ai, al, ba, bi, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-l-u"
 

+1 letter: aboulia, abulias, fabliau.

 

+2 letters: aboulias, balisaur, biannual, bicaudal, bimanual, binaural, fabliaux, habitual, subaxial.

 

+3 letters: auditable, balisaurs, subaerial, subapical, unamiable.

 

+4 letters: acquirable, ambisexual, ambulating, ambulation, battailous, biannually, bimanually, binaurally, columbaria, habitually, illaudable, illaudably, inarguable, inarguably, incunabula, invaluable, invaluably, jubilarian, mandibular, subclavian, subglacial, submaximal, tabulating, tabulation, ultrabasic.

 

+5 letters: ablutionary, albuminuria, ambisexuals, ambulations, antiburglar, articulable, atrabilious, backhauling, hibernacula, jubilarians, lactalbumin, liquidambar, mandibulate, manipulable, qualifiable, subaerially, subclavians, submarginal, subnational, subrational, substantial, sustainable, tabulations, ultrabasics, unalienable, unavailable, unavoidable, unavoidably, unbalancing.

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Alternative Orthography: Abulia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 62 75 6C 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -...    ..-    .-..    ..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100010 01110101 01101100 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#98 &#117 &#108 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0062 0075 006C 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

356887787567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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