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Meaning of ACEDIA

Pronunciation:  u'seedeeu

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 Definition: [n]  apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
 
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 Synonyms: laziness, sloth
 
 See Also: deadly sin, mortal sin

 

 

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 Related Terms: accidia, aloofness, anger, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, avarice, avaritia, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, carelessness, casualness, cave of despair, cave of Trophonius, comatoseness, deadly sin, despair, desperateness, desperation, despondency, detachment, disconsolateness, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, drowsiness, dullness, easygoingness, enervation, ennui, envy, fatigue, forlornness, gluttony, greed, gula, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness, inanimation, inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, indifference, indiscrimination, inexcitability, insouciance, invidia, ira, jadedness, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, lust, luxuria, mindlessness, negligence, no exit, no way, no way out, nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, pride, recklessness, regardlessness, resignation, resignedness, satedness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, superbia, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, unanxiousness, unconcern, unmindfulness, unsolicitousness, weariness, withdrawnness, world-weariness, wrath
 

 

 

 

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