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akrasias

akrasias is the plural of akrasia.

Meaning of akrasia

Noun

akrasia (countable and uncountable, plural akrasias)

  1. (uncountable) Lack of physical or (especially) mental strength; poor willpower; also, the tendency to act contrary to one's better judgment; (countable) an instance of this.
    • His [Homer's] Olympian gods live by passion and propensity rather than by principle; their besetting sin is a fault of inclination to what they like, not of absolute malignity; it belongs to the akrasia, not the absolute kakia of Aristotle.1887 June, W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone, “The Great Olympian Sedition”, in The Contemporary Review, volume LI, London: Isbister and Company […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 762
    Synonyms:
    weakness, ineptitude

Forms of akrasias

alternative formacrasias

Questions about akrasias

What is akrasias the plural of?
Akrasias is the plural of akrasia.

Words near akrasias in the dictionary

  1. akrafenas
  2. Akragas
  3. Akram
  4. akras
  5. akrasia
  6. akrasias
  7. akratic
  8. akratically
  9. Akre
  10. akreophagist
  11. akreophagists

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