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accidia

accidia is the alternative form of acedia.

Meaning of acedia

Noun

acedia (uncountable)

  1. Spiritual or mental sloth and the feeling it provokes; apathy or indifference; a lack of care or interest and the resultant avoidance of duties; a bored melancholy leading to desperation, restlessness and anxiety.
    • Her acedia kept her trapped in a cycle of depression and torpor.

Questions about accidia

What is accidia the alternative form of?
Accidia is the alternative form of acedia.

Words near accidia in the dictionary

  1. accidents
  2. accidents of birth
  3. accidents waiting to happen
  4. accidents will happen
  5. accidents will happen in the best regulated families
  6. accidia
  7. accidie
  8. accidious
  9. accinge
  10. accinged
  11. accinges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accidia (page history and authors); acedia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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