acedia

1. 1.

   apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

   Synonymsslothlaziness

   Broadermortal sin

Other forms of acedia

plural

acedias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acedia

What does acedia mean?

acedia means "apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)".

How many syllables are in acedia?

acedia has 4 syllables: a-ce-di-a. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for acedia?

Close synonyms include sloth, laziness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acedia a common word?

acedia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.