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acedia

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Noun
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a=ce=di=a

CIDE DICTIONARY

acedian. 
     apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

acedia, n. = ACCIDIE.

Etymology
LL acedia f. Gk akedia listlessness

THESAURUS

acedia

accidia, aloofness, anger, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, avarice, avaritia, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, carelessness, casualness, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, comatoseness, deadly sin, despair, desperateness, desperation, despondency, detachment, disconsolateness, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, drowsiness, dullness, easygoingness, enervation, ennui, envy, fatigue, forlornness, gluttony, greed, gula, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness, inanimation, inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, indifference, indiscrimination, inexcitability, insouciance, invidia, ira, jadedness, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, lust, luxuria, mindlessness, negligence, no exit, no way, no way out, nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, pride, recklessness, regardlessness, resignation, resignedness, satedness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, superbia, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, unanxiousness, unconcern, unmindfulness, unsolicitousness, weariness, withdrawnness, world-weariness, wrath

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