abulia

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The Word of the Day for February 1 is:

abulia   \ay-BOO-lee-uh\   noun 
     : abnormal lack of ability to act or to make decisions 

Example sentence:
     "Since his college graduation, my son seems to be suffering from abulia -- 
he just can't decide what he wants to do next," sighed Philip. 

Did you know?
     "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind," Mark Twain once wrote. "It 
takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up." The indecision Twain 
laments is fairly common; only when inability to make decisions reaches an 
abnormal level does it have an uncommon name: "abulia." The English term we use 
today comes from a New Latin word that combines the prefix 
"a-," meaning "without," with the Greek word "boule," meaning "will." "Abulia" 
can refer to the kind of generalized indecision that makes it impossible to 
choose what flavor ice cream you want, though it was created to name a severe 
medical disorder that can render a person nearly inert.