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Acedia

noun
1.
Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).  Synonyms: laziness, sloth.





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... his own experience, describes the acedia, or listlessness of mind and body, to which a monk was exposed, when he sighed to find himself alone. Saepiusque egreditur et ingreditur cellam, et Solem velut ad occasum tardius properantem crebrius ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon


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