Acedia

Definition: Acedia

Acedia

Noun

1. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "acedia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Acedia

Crosswords: Acedia

Books

• Melancholie und Acedia : ein Beitrag zu Anthropologie und Ethik Bonaventuras (reference)

• Vorentw�rfe von Moderne : antike Melancholie und die Acedia des Mittelalters (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bulgarian 

неподвижност (accidie, fixedness, fixity, immobility, immovability, quiescence, quiescency, rigidity, stagnancy, torpor), апатия (accidie, apathy, indifference, insensibility, languor, lassitude, torpor), ленивост (accidie). (various references)

Pig Latin

acediaay.(various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "acedia": acedias. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aecia.

-2 letters: aced, acid, aide, cade, cadi, caid, cedi, dace, dice, iced, idea.

-3 letters: ace, aid, cad, die, ice.

-4 letters: aa, ad, ae, ai, de, ed, id.

+1 letter: acedias, aecidia, alcaide, cardiae, cicadae.

+2 letters: abdicate, abidance, academia, academic, acetamid, acidemia, acidhead, aecidial, alcaides, camailed, camisade, hacienda, maenadic, radiance, radicate.

+3 letters: abdicable, abdicated, abdicates, abidances, academias, academics, academies, academism, acaricide, acclaimed, acetamide, acetamids, acidemias, acidheads, acidulate, acierated, activated, affianced, algaecide, androecia, archaised, archaized, ascarides, asclepiad, avoidance, barricade, cadaveric, cadential, calamined, camisades, canalised, canalized, candidate, captained, carbamide, carinated, cavitated, cyanamide, dalliance, diaconate, dialectal, emaciated, enchilada, epicardia, eradicate, fasciated, glaciated, haciendas, paramedic, radiances, radicated, radicates.

+4 letters: academical, academisms, acaricides, accidental, acclimated, acetamides, acetanilid, acidulated, acidulates, acquainted, acrylamide, actualized, adamancies, adequacies, adjectival, adjudicate, admittance, advocacies, advocative, aldermanic, algaecides, arabicized, asclepiads, associated, audacities, avoidances, barricaded, barricades, brachiated, cadaverine, calibrated, camisadoes, campaigned, candidates, captivated, carbamides, caryatides, castigated, cavaliered, chainsawed, chairmaned, charladies, chlamydiae, cyanamides, dalliances, deactivate, decapitate, demoniacal, deracinate, diaconates, discarnate, divaricate, enchiladas, endocardia, epicardial, eradicable, eradicated, eradicates, eradicator, escalading, fabricated, fascinated, fricandeau, haciendado, headachier, icosahedra, imbalanced, inadequacy, incarnated, irradiance, macadamize, machinated, masticated, paediatric, paramedics, pericardia, radiancies, radicalise, radicalize, saccharide, scandalise, scandalize, tailcoated, unacademic, vacationed, vaccinated, vacillated.

+5 letters: abecedarian, academician, academicism, accidentals, accompanied, acetanilide, acetanilids, acrylamides, adjacencies, adjudicated, adjudicates, adjutancies, admittances, aerodynamic, aeromedical, anecdotical, annunciated, anticathode, anticipated, appreciated, articulated, ascertained, barricadoed, barricadoes, bidialectal, blackmailed, cachinnated, cadaverines, caffeinated, calendaring, calendrical, calumniated, camaraderie, candidacies, candidature, candidiases, cantharides, cantillated, capacitated, caparisoned, capitalised, capitalized, capitulated, caramelised, caramelized, cardinalate, caricatured, catabolized, chairmanned, chambermaid, cocaptained, cyclopaedia, damascening, deactivated, deactivates, deactivator, decantation, decapitated, decapitates, decapitator, declamation, declaration, declarative, defalcating, defalcation, deglaciated, demarcating, demarcation, deracinated, deracinates, desacralize, dialectally, dialectical, diamagnetic, diametrical, diencephala, dilatancies, discardable, divaricated, divaricates, edaphically, educational, emancipated, endocardial, eradicating, eradication, eradicators, facilitated, fanaticized, fricandeaus, fricandeaux, galactoside, haciendados, handicapped, handicapper, headachiest, hexadecimal, icosahedral, inactivated, incarnadine, irradiances, irradicable, macadamized, macadamizes, misbalanced, mispackaged, nematicidal, nematocidal, niacinamide, nonacademic, paediatrics, paramedical, pedagogical, pericardial, pickabacked, radicalised, radicalises, radicalized, radicalizes, radicalness, radioactive, radiotracer, reactivated, recanalized, redactional, saccharides, scandalised, scandalises, scandalized, scandalizes, straitlaced, vaticinated, waistcoated.

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