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acedia

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a·ce·di·a  (-sd-)
n.
Spiritual torpor and apathy; ennui.
[Late Latin, from Greek akdeia, indifference : a-, a-; see a-1 + kdos, care.]
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Noun1.acediaacedia - apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
laziness, sloth
deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins"
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True, they are lives of noisy desperation, hindered by psychoses, prey to boredom and acedia, and permeated from top to bottom with sex--but what could be more ordinary than that?
Futile attraction: Michel Houellebecq's Lovecraft by Banville, John / Artforum International
Reno contends that the most corrosive vice of our age is sloth, spiritual apathy, what the monks called "the noonday devil" of acedia.
Passion & obedience by McCarraher, Eugene / Commonweal
Readers who struggle with sloth seem to get at the original meaning of the Greek word, acedia, which meant "not caring.
Who's afraid of the Seven Deadly Sins? by SCHLUMPF, HEIDI / U.S. Catholic
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