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单词 acedia
释义

acedia

/əˈsiːdɪə /
noun literary
Another term for accidie.I would, however, still be feeling something - melancholia or acedia, ennui, despair, nameless dread or another such psychic state historically lacking effective treatment....
  • 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.’
  • 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!’

Origin

Early 17th century: via late Latin from Greek akēdia 'listlessness', from a- 'without' + kēdos 'care'.

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