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acedia [əsē′dē·ə] Etymology: Gk, akedia, apathy a condition of listlessness and a form of melancholia, marked by indifference and sluggish mental processes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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? Reno contends that
the most corrosive vice of our age is sloth, spiritual apathy, what the
monks called "the noonday devil" of acedia. Readers who struggle with sloth seem to get at the original meaning
of the Greek word, acedia, which meant "not caring. |
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