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Definition of acedia in English: acedianoun əˈsiːdɪəəˈsēdēə literary another term for accidie Example sentencesExamples - Faced with this situation, Smithson felt that the task of the artist was to cultivate a thoroughgoing acedia: ‘The artist should be an actor who refuses to act’ and ‘Immobility and inertia are what many of the most gifted artists prefer.’
- Few of us who read habitually ever feel called upon to defend the practice-a kind of reader's acedia, an occupational hazard.
- The Roman Catholic Church, which, like Nietzsche, knows something about conviction, has a name for this apathy: acedia, which is laziness of spirit, idleness of soul.
- I would, however, still be feeling something - melancholia or acedia, ennui, despair, nameless dread or another such psychic state historically lacking effective treatment.
- R. R. Reno's connection of an overblown fear of suffering with acedia or spiritual apathy in ‘Fighting the Noonday Devil’ (August / September) gave me an ‘aha!’
- The distraction is rooted in acedia, the ancient soul-scourge about which the church fathers knew and wrote so much.
- If McKibben highlights pride and avarice, R. R. Reno contends that the most corrosive vice of our age is sloth, spiritual apathy, what the monks called ‘the noonday devil’ of acedia.
- Stephens's various descriptions of indigenous acedia do indeed suggest that the people of Central America and Yucatan inhabit a different sort of time: lazy, circular, and stagnant.
- Raposa takes the possibility of voluntary consent to acedia seriously, but he is more particularly concerned with boredom as a significant but ambiguous fact of the spiritual life.
- Medieval English writers often speak of acedia as wanhope, a waning of confidence in the efficacy and importance of prayer.
OriginEarly 17th century: via late Latin from Greek akēdia 'listlessness', from a- 'without' + kēdos 'care'. Rhymesencyclopedia, media, multimedia Definition of acedia in US English: acedianounəˈsēdēə literary Spiritual or mental sloth; apathy. Example sentencesExamples - I would, however, still be feeling something - melancholia or acedia, ennui, despair, nameless dread or another such psychic state historically lacking effective treatment.
- If McKibben highlights pride and avarice, R. R. Reno contends that the most corrosive vice of our age is sloth, spiritual apathy, what the monks called ‘the noonday devil’ of acedia.
- Few of us who read habitually ever feel called upon to defend the practice-a kind of reader's acedia, an occupational hazard.
- The distraction is rooted in acedia, the ancient soul-scourge about which the church fathers knew and wrote so much.
- R. R. Reno's connection of an overblown fear of suffering with acedia or spiritual apathy in ‘Fighting the Noonday Devil’ (August / September) gave me an ‘aha!’
- Faced with this situation, Smithson felt that the task of the artist was to cultivate a thoroughgoing acedia: ‘The artist should be an actor who refuses to act’ and ‘Immobility and inertia are what many of the most gifted artists prefer.’
- Medieval English writers often speak of acedia as wanhope, a waning of confidence in the efficacy and importance of prayer.
- Raposa takes the possibility of voluntary consent to acedia seriously, but he is more particularly concerned with boredom as a significant but ambiguous fact of the spiritual life.
- The Roman Catholic Church, which, like Nietzsche, knows something about conviction, has a name for this apathy: acedia, which is laziness of spirit, idleness of soul.
- Stephens's various descriptions of indigenous acedia do indeed suggest that the people of Central America and Yucatan inhabit a different sort of time: lazy, circular, and stagnant.
OriginEarly 17th century: via late Latin from Greek akēdia ‘listlessness’, from a- ‘without’ + kēdos ‘care’. |