Definitions
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman accidie, Old French accide, accidie, from Late Latin accīdia, alteration of acēdia ("sloth, torpor"), from Ancient Greek ἀκήδεια (akēdeia, "indifference"), from ἀ- (a-, "not") + κῆδος (kēdos, "care"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie.”
“He would reconcile himself to living since there was no alternative and, this perverse fit of resentment and accidie conveniently put down to weakness, would come to believe that he had had a lucky escape.”
“‘Depression’, ‘grief’, ‘melancholia’, ‘black bile’, ‘accidie’ are, it is true, not synonymous, nor do they, probably, refer to precisely the same phenomena; but does that mean that there are no such dark phenomena?”
“Wasn't accidie, that lethargy of the spirit, one of the deadly sins?”
“Gif me hit nat naut {;} þenne is hit gemeles vnder accidie · þat ich slouþe cleopede.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“Deciding, on a whim, to visit the Zoo, she runs into her old friend Professor "Badger" Badgecumbe, and they go and look at the echidna, a hideous creature who is the incarnation of accidie.”
“Five minutes of weeding routs accidie, and "provides an incentive to be in the open air without the intolerable necessity for striking, coaxing, pursuing or intercepting any kind, shape or size of ball ...”
“The mental and spiritual accidie which had been enveloping me for nearly a year dropped off me like a cloak.”
“The meridian demon was upon him; he was possessed by that bored and hopeless post-prandial melancholy which the coenobites of old knew and feared under the name of "accidie.”
“Kneel down or sit decorously without accidie or leaning to one side or the other, and always bear thyself thus when thou dost pray.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘accidie’.
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Not 250 Spelling Words Again
Yet more spelling words for intermediate to advanced spellers.
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axilla, avalement, argil, argent, argand, arete, aretaics, areometer, areology, arenoid, arenaceous, arefy and 1214 more...
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Tricky To Spell or Pronounce
ply, stationary, stationery, monetize, finagle, cartilaginous, apposite, languor, douceur, Umwelt, faze, sequela and 13 more...
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Actual Words
I checked, because I wasn't sure, but these words were coined and entered into a dictionary before I thought them up.
dishevelment, commoditize, feck, foppery, grimoire, apposite, impassible, reparable, arithmomania, patois, absquatulate, scopperil and 18 more...
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Dude, you really just need to cheer up
words denoting depression, melancholy or general lack of contentment
melancholy, depression, sadness, sad, accidie, lethargy, apathy, lackluster, topor, careless, unenthused, languid and 1 more...
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Dawn Words in English
swefnum, swefna, secgan, goste, wealhstod, wald-swathu, hearpan, hwaet, leothcraeft, beorhtost, wyrd, dustsceawung and 131 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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Encountered while reading
snatiation, urodynamics, cadaverine, putrescine, ferret emesis, dracula fish, psychedelic frogfish, mangkorn chomphoo, sengi, blonde-ginger bat, symplectic camel, zeolite and 312 more...
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Rita's List of Words
preliminary, rudimentary, stance, conduit, locale, implicit, vicissitude, empirical, repository, apophthegm, apothegm, invariable and 431 more...
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dbnews
echolalia, indehiscent, lacrimation, librate, syntagmatic, acquiesce, quiddity, accidie, antinomy, cathexis, ersatz, revenant and 93 more...
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Philosophical Jargon
Words philosophical writers use to give the illusion of technical competence, including up-trippingly specialised senses of words that have other jobs during daylight hours.
akrasia, akrates, particularism, particularist, mereology, deontology, cognitivism, naturalism, anti-naturalism, ethics, phenomenology, metaethics and 220 more...
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froseph's list
saritorial, pogrom, synecdoche, metonymy, tonsorial, prophylactic, ozymandias, nepenthe, tonsorial, tranche, allodium, allodial and 156 more...
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Sloth
torpor, indifference, spiritlessness, phlegmatic, impassiveness, stolidity, unemotionality, quietism, unconcern, accidie, apathy, lassitude and 11 more...
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peggyl's Words
diener, concupiscent, ephemeral, eminence grise, recursion, scupper, spall, accidie, rebarbative, eponym, semiotics, fulvous and 3 more...
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frogapplause A state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world. May 3, 2011
vanishedone Metapsychology: 'The eleven papers in this collection are concerned with practical reasoning, or reasoning about what to do. In particular, they address issues connected with a number of ways in which practical reasoning can go wrong. These include various aspects of akrasia (acting in a way you judge not to be best), failing to act in accordance with your resolutions (what Richard Holton calls weakness of will and distinguishes from the traditional understanding of akrasia), accidie (failing to be motivated by your value judgments), the role of emotions in practical reasoning, and prudence (whether we should take account of our future desires).' Nov 11, 2008
yarb Citation on coenobite. Mar 29, 2008