accidie
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
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- 14
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- 7
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Definition of accidie
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(literary, uncountable)Sloth, slothfulness, especially as inducing general listlessness and apathy.
“Underneath the surface excitements the demon of accidie had her by the hair.”
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Etymology
From Middle English accidie, from Anglo-Norman accidie, Old French accide, accidie, from Late Latin accīdia, alteration of acēdia (“sloth, torpor”), from Ancient Greek ἀκήδεια (akḗdeia, “indifference”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κῆδος (kêdos, “care”). Doublet of acedia.
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