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'.
Rhymes
- palaestric
- palaetiological
- palaetiology
- palaeëncephalic
- palaeëncephalon
- palafite
- palafitte
- palagi
- palagonite
- palagonite tuff
- palagonitic
- palagonitisation
- palagonitised
- palagonitization
- palagonitized
- Palaic
- Palaiologan
- Palaiologian
- palais
- palais de danse
- Palais de Justice
- Palais de l'Elysée
- palais glide
- Aegipan
- aegirine