accidie

• acedia

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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.sɪ.di/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.sə.di/

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accidie (uncountable)

1. (now literary) Sloth, slothfulness, especially as inducing general listlessness and apathy. [from 13th c.]
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parson's Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:

     Aftere þe synnes of Envie I wil speke of þe synne of Accidie.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 363:

     Underneath the surface excitements the demon of accidie had her by the hair.

• cecidia

accidie f

1. plural of accidia