A medical or psychological condition characterized by the absence or loss of emotion, will, or feeling.
From Greek 'a-' (without) + 'thymos' (spirit, emotion, will), literally meaning 'without thymus or emotional spirit.' The term entered medical English in the 19th century.
Doctors borrowed this from ancient Greek philosophy where 'thymos' meant the passionate, spirited part of the soul—so 'athymia' suggests someone's inner fire has gone out, which is poetically darker than modern terms like 'anhedonia' or 'apathy.'
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